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Under-5 mortality rate

Observed

Probability per 1,000 that a newborn will die before reaching age five, at current age-specific mortality rates.

Ingestedfrom World BankfreshJSON export
Current value, High income
5.1deaths per 1,000 live births
period 2024
Geography
High income (HIC)World Bank aggregate, not a continent
Observation date
2024
Unit
deaths per 1,000 live births
Frequency
annual
Ingested
2026-09-07 05:31 UTC
1-year change0no change0.00%2023 to 2024from 5.1 to 5.1 deaths per 1,000 live births
10-year trend-1.61% per yearimproving-15.00%2014 to 2024compound annual growth rate; total -0.9 deaths per 1,000 live births, from 6 to 5.1 deaths per 1,000 live births
Historical series

Under-5 mortality rate, High income

Observed
46810121419901995200020052010201520202024DEATHS PER 1,000 LIVE BIRTHS5.1
35 observations, 1990 to 2024latest point emphasised
Data table (35 rows)
Under-5 mortality rate, High income: 35 observations from 1990 to 2024, values from 5.1 to 13.8 deaths per 1,000 live births. Latest 5.1 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2024. Full data table below.
PeriodValue (deaths per 1,000 live births)Source revisionIngested at
20245.12026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
20235.12026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
20225.12026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
20215.12026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
20205.22026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
20195.22026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
20185.42026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
20175.52026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
20165.72026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
20155.82026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
201462026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
20136.22026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
20126.32026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
20116.52026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
20106.62026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
20096.82026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
200872026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
20077.32026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
20067.52026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
20057.82026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
20048.12026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
20038.42026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
20028.62026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
20018.92026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
20009.22026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
19999.52026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
19989.92026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
199710.22026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
199610.72026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
199511.12026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
199411.62026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
199312.12026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
199212.62026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
199113.22026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
199013.82026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
243 geographies have observations for this metric
World Bank, World Development Indicators, series SH.DYN.MORT
Definition

What this measures

Under-five mortality rate is the probability per 1,000 that a newborn baby will die before reaching age five, if subject to age-specific mortality rates of the specified year. The estimates are produced by the UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UNICEF, WHO, World Bank, UN DESA Population Division).

Direction
lower is better
Geography level
world, regions, countries
Slug
under5-mortality
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Provenance and methodologysource, series, ingestion, revisions
Classification
Observedpublished by the cited source, ingested without transformation
Source organization
World Bank, World Development Indicators
Series ID
SH.DYN.MORTlast fetch: ok
Source links
License and attribution
Approved with attribution
World Bank, World Development Indicators, CC BY 4.0
Terms of use
Last source update
2026-07-13(source revision label as published by the provider)
Last ingestion
last successful runfresh
Last run
success2026-09-07 10:04 UTC
Parser version
world-bank-v2/1.0.0
Methodology version
1.0
Quality and confidence
Modelled by the UN IGME from survey, census and vital registration data; the whole series is re-estimated at each release.
Ingestion rejects values outside 0 to 1,000 deaths per 1,000 live births.
35 periods with values for this geography, 1990 to 2024.
Revisions
Values reported for the latest period (2024) by each source revision ingested. Earlier rows are never deleted; the newest ingested row is shown as current.
Source revisionValue (deaths per 1,000 live births)Ingested atStatus
2026-07-135.12026-09-07 05:31 UTCcurrent
No superseded rows for this geography: every period has been ingested once.