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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, Lower middle income
43.8deaths per 1,000 live births
period 2024
Geography
Lower middle income (LMC)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-1.1improving-2.45%2023 to 2024from 44.9 to 43.8 deaths per 1,000 live births
10-year trend-2.62% per yearimproving-23.29%2014 to 2024compound annual growth rate; total -13.3 deaths per 1,000 live births, from 57.1 to 43.8 deaths per 1,000 live births
Historical series

Under-5 mortality rate, Lower middle income

Observed
40608010012014019901995200020052010201520202024DEATHS PER 1,000 LIVE BIRTHS43.8
35 observations, 1990 to 2024latest point emphasised
Data table (35 rows)
Under-5 mortality rate, Lower middle income: 35 observations from 1990 to 2024, values from 43.8 to 127.9 deaths per 1,000 live births. Latest 43.8 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2024. Full data table below.
PeriodValue (deaths per 1,000 live births)Source revisionIngested at
202443.82026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
202344.92026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
2022462026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
2021472026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
202048.12026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
201949.32026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
201850.62026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
2017522026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
201653.52026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
201555.32026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
201457.12026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
201359.12026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
201261.32026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
201163.72026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
201066.42026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
200968.72026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
200871.92026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
200774.22026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
200677.22026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
200580.22026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
200483.52026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
200386.82026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
200290.42026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
200194.12026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
200097.82026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
1999101.52026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
19981052026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
1997108.22026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
1996111.42026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
1995114.22026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
1994116.92026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
1993119.52026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
1992122.22026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
19911252026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
1990127.92026-07-132026-09-07 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
2026-07-1343.82026-09-07 05:31 UTCcurrent
No superseded rows for this geography: every period has been ingested once.