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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, Upper middle income
13.1deaths per 1,000 live births
period 2024
Geography
Upper middle income (UMC)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-0.6improving-4.38%2023 to 2024from 13.7 to 13.1 deaths per 1,000 live births
10-year trend-2.51% per yearimproving-22.49%2014 to 2024compound annual growth rate; total -3.8 deaths per 1,000 live births, from 16.9 to 13.1 deaths per 1,000 live births
Historical series

Under-5 mortality rate, Upper middle income

Observed
10203040506019901995200020052010201520202024DEATHS PER 1,000 LIVE BIRTHS13.1
35 observations, 1990 to 2024latest point emphasised
Data table (35 rows)
Under-5 mortality rate, Upper middle income: 35 observations from 1990 to 2024, values from 13.1 to 56.3 deaths per 1,000 live births. Latest 13.1 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2024. Full data table below.
PeriodValue (deaths per 1,000 live births)Source revisionIngested at
202413.12026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
202313.72026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
202213.82026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
202113.92026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
202014.12026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
201914.12026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
201814.52026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
201714.72026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
201615.52026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
201516.22026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
201416.92026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
201317.82026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
201218.62026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
201119.72026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
201020.82026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
200922.12026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
200823.52026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
200725.12026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
200626.72026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
200528.32026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
200430.72026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
200331.72026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
200233.62026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
200135.62026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
200037.62026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
199939.62026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
199841.62026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
199743.62026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
199645.62026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
199547.52026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
199449.42026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
199351.42026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
199253.12026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
199154.92026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
199056.32026-07-132026-09-07 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
2026-07-1313.12026-09-07 05:31 UTCcurrent
No superseded rows for this geography: every period has been ingested once.