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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, Latin America & Caribbean
15.4deaths per 1,000 live births
period 2024
Geography
Latin America & Caribbean (LCN)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 change-0.3improving-1.91%2023 to 2024from 15.7 to 15.4 deaths per 1,000 live births
10-year trend-1.92% per yearimproving-17.65%2014 to 2024compound annual growth rate; total -3.3 deaths per 1,000 live births, from 18.7 to 15.4 deaths per 1,000 live births
Historical series

Under-5 mortality rate, Latin America & Caribbean

Observed
10203040506019901995200020052010201520202024DEATHS PER 1,000 LIVE BIRTHS15.4
35 observations, 1990 to 2024latest point emphasised
Data table (35 rows)
Under-5 mortality rate, Latin America & Caribbean: 35 observations from 1990 to 2024, values from 15.4 to 54.6 deaths per 1,000 live births. Latest 15.4 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2024. Full data table below.
PeriodValue (deaths per 1,000 live births)Source revisionIngested at
202415.42026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
202315.72026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
2022162026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
202116.42026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
202016.72026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
2019172026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
201817.42026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
201717.82026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
201618.52026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
201518.32026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
201418.72026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
201319.22026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
201219.82026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
201120.42026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
201022.72026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
200921.82026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
200822.72026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
200723.62026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
200624.62026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
200525.62026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
200426.82026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
200328.12026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
200229.52026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
2001312026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
200032.72026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
199934.42026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
199836.92026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
199738.42026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
199640.52026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
199542.72026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
1994452026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
199347.42026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
199249.82026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
199152.22026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
199054.62026-07-132026-09-07 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
2026-07-1315.42026-09-07 05:31 UTCcurrent
No superseded rows for this geography: every period has been ingested once.