Infant mortality rate in Euro area
The infant mortality rate in the euro area was 3.1 per 1,000 live births in 2024. The value for 2024 is the lowest in the series, which starts in 1990.
Euro area is a group: Euro area; membership follows each source definition (World Bank EMU, ECB U2 changing composition). The value is the aggregate published by World Bank, not an average calculated on this site.
Euro area, 2024
3.1
Change from 2023
0per 1,000 live births
World, 2024
27.7 per 1,000 live births
Infant mortality rate in Euro area over time
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Deaths per 1,000 live births. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.
| Period | Euro area | World |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 3.1 per 1,000 live births | 27.7 per 1,000 live births |
| 2023 | 3.1 per 1,000 live births | 28.4 per 1,000 live births |
| 2022 | 3.1 per 1,000 live births | 29.3 per 1,000 live births |
| 2021 | 3.1 per 1,000 live births | 29.3 per 1,000 live births |
| 2020 | 3.1 per 1,000 live births | 29.1 per 1,000 live births |
| 2019 | 3.1 per 1,000 live births | 29.2 per 1,000 live births |
| 2018 | 3.2 per 1,000 live births | 29.6 per 1,000 live births |
| 2017 | 3.2 per 1,000 live births | 30.0 per 1,000 live births |
| 2016 | 3.2 per 1,000 live births | 30.6 per 1,000 live births |
| 2015 | 3.3 per 1,000 live births | 31.5 per 1,000 live births |
| 2014 | 3.3 per 1,000 live births | 32.1 per 1,000 live births |
| 2013 | 3.3 per 1,000 live births | 33.1 per 1,000 live births |
| 2012 | 3.4 per 1,000 live births | 34.0 per 1,000 live births |
| 2011 | 3.4 per 1,000 live births | 35.9 per 1,000 live births |
| 2010 | 3.5 per 1,000 live births | 36.7 per 1,000 live births |
| 2009 | 3.6 per 1,000 live births | 38.0 per 1,000 live births |
| 2008 | 3.7 per 1,000 live births | 39.2 per 1,000 live births |
| 2007 | 3.8 per 1,000 live births | 40.7 per 1,000 live births |
| 2006 | 3.9 per 1,000 live births | 42.3 per 1,000 live births |
| 2005 | 4.0 per 1,000 live births | 44.1 per 1,000 live births |
| 2004 | 4.2 per 1,000 live births | 46.3 per 1,000 live births |
| 2003 | 4.4 per 1,000 live births | 48.0 per 1,000 live births |
| 2002 | 4.6 per 1,000 live births | 49.9 per 1,000 live births |
| 2001 | 4.7 per 1,000 live births | 51.9 per 1,000 live births |
| 2000 | 4.9 per 1,000 live births | 53.3 per 1,000 live births |
A dash means no value was published for that period.
In short
- That is a change of 0 from 3.1 per 1,000 live births in 2023.
- Since 2014, when it was 3.3 per 1,000 live births, the figure has changed by −0.2.
- The figure for the world in 2024 was 27.7 per 1,000 live births.
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Maternal mortality ratio
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