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Under-five mortality rate in Iceland

The under-five mortality rate in Iceland was 2.8 per 1,000 live births in 2024.

Measure: Under-five mortality rate Unit: Deaths per 1,000 live births Data: 1960 to 2024 Source: World Bank
Iceland, 2024 2.8 Deaths per 1,000 live births
Change from 2023 −0.1per 1,000 live births 2023: 2.9 per 1,000 live births
World, 2024 37.4 per 1,000 live births Official aggregate
Median of OECD (38 countries), 2024 3.7 per 1,000 live births Middle value of 38 countries
Position in 2024 178th of 196 See the full ranking

Under-five mortality rate in Iceland 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.

Under-five mortality rate (deaths per 1,000 live births), 2000 to 2024
Period IcelandWorld
2024 2.8 per 1,000 live births 37.4 per 1,000 live births
2023 2.9 per 1,000 live births 38.3 per 1,000 live births
2022 2.9 per 1,000 live births 40.0 per 1,000 live births
2021 2.9 per 1,000 live births 39.6 per 1,000 live births
2020 2.8 per 1,000 live births 39.2 per 1,000 live births
2019 2.8 per 1,000 live births 39.6 per 1,000 live births
2018 2.7 per 1,000 live births 40.0 per 1,000 live births
2017 2.7 per 1,000 live births 40.9 per 1,000 live births
2016 2.6 per 1,000 live births 41.7 per 1,000 live births
2015 2.6 per 1,000 live births 42.9 per 1,000 live births
2014 2.6 per 1,000 live births 43.9 per 1,000 live births
2013 2.6 per 1,000 live births 45.1 per 1,000 live births
2012 2.6 per 1,000 live births 46.7 per 1,000 live births
2011 2.6 per 1,000 live births 49.5 per 1,000 live births
2010 2.7 per 1,000 live births 50.6 per 1,000 live births
2009 2.7 per 1,000 live births 52.9 per 1,000 live births
2008 2.8 per 1,000 live births 54.7 per 1,000 live births
2007 2.8 per 1,000 live births 57.0 per 1,000 live births
2006 2.9 per 1,000 live births 59.6 per 1,000 live births
2005 3.1 per 1,000 live births 62.3 per 1,000 live births
2004 3.2 per 1,000 live births 65.8 per 1,000 live births
2003 3.3 per 1,000 live births 68.3 per 1,000 live births
2002 3.5 per 1,000 live births 71.3 per 1,000 live births
2001 3.7 per 1,000 live births 74.3 per 1,000 live births
2000 3.9 per 1,000 live births 76.7 per 1,000 live births

A dash means no value was published for that period.

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In short

  • That is a change of −0.1 from 2.9 per 1,000 live births in 2023.
  • Since 2014, when it was 2.6 per 1,000 live births, the figure has changed by +0.2.
  • Among the 196 countries with data for 2024, Iceland has the 178th highest value.
  • The figure for the world in 2024 was 37.4 per 1,000 live births.

More for Iceland

All statistics for Iceland
Infant mortality rate 2.1 per 1,000 live births 2024 · World Bank Maternal mortality ratio 3 per 100,000 live births 2023 · World Bank Life expectancy at birth 82.8 years 2024 · Eurostat Infant mortality rate 1.4 per 1,000 live births 2024 · Eurostat Hospital beds 257 per 100,000 people 2023 · Eurostat Practising physicians 466d (Definition differs) per 100,000 people 2024 · Eurostat

Source and dates

Original producer
UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UNICEF, WHO, World Bank, UN DESA)
Distributed by
World Bank, World Development Indicators
Dataset or series code
SH.DYN.MORT · dataset details · view at source
Observation period
1960 to 2024 for Iceland
Provider update
8 October 2026
Retrieved
9 November 2026
Published here
9 November 2026
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (per series metadata)
Attribution
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, original data: UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UNICEF, WHO, World Bank, UN DESA)