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Under-five mortality rate

The probability that a newborn dies before reaching age five, per 1,000 live births, at the age-specific mortality rates of the year. These are modelled estimates.

Unit: Deaths per 1,000 live births Frequency: Annual Coverage: 196 countries and 11 groups 1960 to 2024 Source: World Bank (original data: UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UNICEF, WHO, World Bank, UN DESA))
Highest in 2024 115.6 per 1,000 live births Nigeria Lowest in 2024 1.3 per 1,000 live births San Marino
Euro area, 2024 3.7 per 1,000 live births Official aggregate published by the source
Countries ranked for 2024 196 Updated by the source on 8 October 2026

196 countries have a value for 2024, the latest period in the data.

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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 ChileCuba
2024 6.8 per 1,000 live births 8.6 per 1,000 live births
2023 6.9 per 1,000 live births 8.2 per 1,000 live births
2022 6.8 per 1,000 live births 7.8 per 1,000 live births
2021 6.7 per 1,000 live births 7.5 per 1,000 live births
2020 6.8 per 1,000 live births 7.2 per 1,000 live births
2019 7.0 per 1,000 live births 6.9 per 1,000 live births
2018 7.3 per 1,000 live births 6.6 per 1,000 live births
2017 7.6 per 1,000 live births 6.4 per 1,000 live births
2016 7.7 per 1,000 live births 6.3 per 1,000 live births
2015 7.9 per 1,000 live births 6.1 per 1,000 live births
2014 8.1 per 1,000 live births 6.1 per 1,000 live births
2013 8.3 per 1,000 live births 6.0 per 1,000 live births
2012 8.4 per 1,000 live births 6.1 per 1,000 live births
2011 8.6 per 1,000 live births 6.1 per 1,000 live births
2010 8.7 per 1,000 live births 6.2 per 1,000 live births
2009 8.8 per 1,000 live births 6.3 per 1,000 live births
2008 8.8 per 1,000 live births 6.5 per 1,000 live births
2007 8.9 per 1,000 live births 6.6 per 1,000 live births
2006 9.0 per 1,000 live births 6.8 per 1,000 live births
2005 9.1 per 1,000 live births 7.1 per 1,000 live births
2004 9.2 per 1,000 live births 7.3 per 1,000 live births
2003 9.4 per 1,000 live births 7.6 per 1,000 live births
2002 9.8 per 1,000 live births 7.9 per 1,000 live births
2001 10.3 per 1,000 live births 8.2 per 1,000 live births
2000 10.9 per 1,000 live births 8.6 per 1,000 live births

A dash means no value was published for that period.

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In short

  • Among the 196 countries with a value for 2024, the highest is Nigeria (115.6 per 1,000 live births) and the lowest San Marino (1.3 per 1,000 live births).
  • Half of the countries are above 15.0 per 1,000 live births and half below.
  • From 2023 to 2024 the value rose in 19 countries and fell in 152.
  • The figure for the world was 37.4 per 1,000 live births in 2024, against 39.6 per 1,000 live births in 2019 (−2.2).

About this measure

Definition
The probability that a newborn dies before reaching age five, per 1,000 live births, at the age-specific mortality rates of the year. These are modelled estimates.
Population covered
Live births
Unit
Deaths per 1,000 live births
Frequency
Annual
Changes are shown as
Differences in the same unit (per 1,000 live births)

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
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)

All countries in 2024 Every value is for 2024, so the countries are compared at the same point in time.

  1. 1 Nigeria 115.6 per 1,000 live births
  2. 2 Niger 110.7 per 1,000 live births
  3. 3 Somalia, Fed. Rep. 101.1 per 1,000 live births
  4. 4 Chad 97.3 per 1,000 live births
  5. 5 South Sudan 96.7 per 1,000 live births
  6. 6 Guinea 92.1 per 1,000 live births
  7. 7 Sierra Leone 90.5 per 1,000 live births
  8. 8 Central African Republic 89.7 per 1,000 live births
  9. 9 Democratic Republic of the Congo 89.7 per 1,000 live births
  10. 10 Liberia 86.4 per 1,000 live births
  11. 11 Burkina Faso 74.9 per 1,000 live births
  12. 12 Benin 74.7 per 1,000 live births
  13. 13 Mali 73.0 per 1,000 live births
  14. 14 Equatorial Guinea 68.0 per 1,000 live births
  15. 15 Guinea-Bissau 67.3 per 1,000 live births
  16. 16 Cameroon 64.8 per 1,000 live births
  17. 17 Zimbabwe 64.7 per 1,000 live births
  18. 18 Côte d'Ivoire 64.5 per 1,000 live births
  19. 19 Madagascar 62.4 per 1,000 live births
  20. 20 Sudan 61.6 per 1,000 live births
  21. 21 Lesotho 60.0 per 1,000 live births
  22. 22 Mozambique 59.4 per 1,000 live births
  23. 23 Togo 56.1 per 1,000 live births
  24. 24 Pakistan 56.0 per 1,000 live births
  25. 25 Kiribati 53.1 per 1,000 live births
  26. 26 Afghanistan 53.0 per 1,000 live births
  27. 27 Haiti 52.8 per 1,000 live births
  28. 28 Angola 49.0 per 1,000 live births
  29. 29 Djibouti 48.9 per 1,000 live births
  30. 30 Malawi 48.8 per 1,000 live births
  31. 31 Uganda 48.7 per 1,000 live births
  32. 32 Zambia 48.4 per 1,000 live births
  33. 33 Timor-Leste 47.6 per 1,000 live births
  34. 34 Burundi 47.1 per 1,000 live births
  35. 35 Eswatini 45.1 per 1,000 live births
  36. 36 Ethiopia 44.5 per 1,000 live births
  37. 37 Gambia 42.4 per 1,000 live births
  38. 38 Namibia 39.5 per 1,000 live births
  39. 39 Papua New Guinea 39.4 per 1,000 live births
  40. 40 Republic of the Congo 39.1 per 1,000 live births
  41. 41 Comoros 39.0 per 1,000 live births
  42. 42 Turkmenistan 39.0 per 1,000 live births
  43. 43 Kenya 38.8 per 1,000 live births
  44. 44 Yemen 38.1 per 1,000 live births
  45. 45 West Bank and Gaza 37.9 per 1,000 live births
  46. 46 Rwanda 37.7 per 1,000 live births
  47. 47 Tanzania 37.0 per 1,000 live births
  48. 48 Mauritania 36.9 per 1,000 live births
  49. 49 Myanmar 36.9 per 1,000 live births
  50. 50 Senegal 36.5 per 1,000 live births
  51. 51 Ghana 35.9 per 1,000 live births
  52. 52 Dominica 35.7 per 1,000 live births
  53. 53 South Africa 35.1 per 1,000 live births
  54. 54 Eritrea 34.3 per 1,000 live births
  55. 55 Botswana 33.3 per 1,000 live births
  56. 56 Gabon 32.6 per 1,000 live births
  57. 57 Dominican Republic 30.6 per 1,000 live births
  58. 58 Bangladesh 30.5 per 1,000 live births
  59. 59 Laos 29.4 per 1,000 live births
  60. 60 Fiji 29.1 per 1,000 live births
  61. 61 Tajikistan 28.1 per 1,000 live births
  62. 62 Marshall Islands 26.7 per 1,000 live births
  63. 63 India 26.6 per 1,000 live births
  64. 64 Philippines 26.5 per 1,000 live births
  65. 65 Guyana 25.2 per 1,000 live births
  66. 66 Nepal 25.1 per 1,000 live births
  67. 67 Venezuela 24.2 per 1,000 live births
  68. 68 Egypt 22.4 per 1,000 live births
  69. 69 Micronesia 22.4 per 1,000 live births
  70. 70 Iraq 21.8 per 1,000 live births
  71. 71 Algeria 21.6 per 1,000 live births
  72. 72 Palau 21.4 per 1,000 live births
  73. 73 Guatemala 20.5 per 1,000 live births
  74. 74 Solomon Islands 20.0 per 1,000 live births
  75. 75 Tuvalu 19.2 per 1,000 live births
  76. 76 Trinidad and Tobago 18.8 per 1,000 live births
  77. 77 Cambodia 18.4 per 1,000 live births
  78. 78 Syria 18.4 per 1,000 live births
  79. 79 Grenada 18.0 per 1,000 live births
  80. 80 Azerbaijan 17.9 per 1,000 live births
  81. 81 Jamaica 17.8 per 1,000 live births
  82. 82 Indonesia 17.7 per 1,000 live births
  83. 83 Lebanon 17.6 per 1,000 live births
  84. 84 Viet Nam 17.3 per 1,000 live births
  85. 85 Bhutan 17.2 per 1,000 live births
  86. 86 Saint Lucia 17.2 per 1,000 live births
  87. 87 Vanuatu 17.1 per 1,000 live births
  88. 88 Kyrgyzstan 16.8 per 1,000 live births
  89. 89 North Korea 16.7 per 1,000 live births
  90. 90 Moldova 16.5 per 1,000 live births
  91. 91 Paraguay 16.3 per 1,000 live births
  92. 92 Saint Kitts and Nevis 15.9 per 1,000 live births
  93. 93 Suriname 15.8 per 1,000 live births
  94. 94 Bolivia 15.7 per 1,000 live births
  95. 95 Morocco 15.7 per 1,000 live births
  96. 96 Mauritius 15.4 per 1,000 live births
  97. 97 Panama 15.3 per 1,000 live births
  98. 98 Honduras 15.0 per 1,000 live births
  99. 99 Samoa 14.9 per 1,000 live births
  100. 100 Brazil 14.2 per 1,000 live births
  101. 101 Seychelles 14.0 per 1,000 live births
  102. 102 São Tomé and Príncipe 13.6 per 1,000 live births
  103. 103 Mongolia 13.4 per 1,000 live births
  104. 104 Uzbekistan 13.4 per 1,000 live births
  105. 105 Mexico 13.1 per 1,000 live births
  106. 106 Ecuador 12.9 per 1,000 live births
  107. 107 Jordan 12.9 per 1,000 live births
  108. 108 Peru 12.9 per 1,000 live births
  109. 109 Belize 12.7 per 1,000 live births
  110. 110 Bahamas 12.4 per 1,000 live births
  111. 111 British Virgin Islands 12.4 per 1,000 live births
  112. 112 Tunisia 12.1 per 1,000 live births
  113. 113 Colombia 11.5 per 1,000 live births
  114. 114 Iran 11.3 per 1,000 live births
  115. 115 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 11.3 per 1,000 live births
  116. 116 Nicaragua 11.2 per 1,000 live births
  117. 117 Cabo Verde 11.1 per 1,000 live births
  118. 118 Costa Rica 10.4 per 1,000 live births
  119. 119 Oman 10.3 per 1,000 live births
  120. 120 El Salvador 10.0 per 1,000 live births
  121. 121 Brunei 9.9 per 1,000 live births
  122. 122 Barbados 9.8 per 1,000 live births
  123. 123 Libya 9.8 per 1,000 live births
  124. 124 Armenia 9.6 per 1,000 live births
  125. 125 Türkiye 9.6 per 1,000 live births
  126. 126 Argentina 9.5 per 1,000 live births
  127. 127 Tonga 9.5 per 1,000 live births
  128. 128 Kazakhstan 9.4 per 1,000 live births
  129. 129 Albania 9.2 per 1,000 live births
  130. 130 Antigua and Barbuda 9.1 per 1,000 live births
  131. 131 Thailand 9.0 per 1,000 live births
  132. 132 Bahrain 8.8 per 1,000 live births
  133. 133 Kosovo 8.7 per 1,000 live births
  134. 134 Cuba 8.6 per 1,000 live births
  135. 135 Georgia 8.6 per 1,000 live births
  136. 136 Malaysia 8.3 per 1,000 live births
  137. 137 Naoero 8.3 per 1,000 live births
  138. 138 Kuwait 8.1 per 1,000 live births
  139. 139 Ukraine 7.9 per 1,000 live births
  140. 140 Uruguay 7.4 per 1,000 live births
  141. 141 Romania 7.3 per 1,000 live births
  142. 142 Bosnia and Herzegovina 6.9 per 1,000 live births
  143. 143 Chile 6.8 per 1,000 live births
  144. 144 United States 6.5 per 1,000 live births
  145. 145 Slovakia 6.3 per 1,000 live births
  146. 146 Saudi Arabia 6.0 per 1,000 live births
  147. 147 Qatar 5.9 per 1,000 live births
  148. 148 Sri Lanka 5.9 per 1,000 live births
  149. 149 Bulgaria 5.7 per 1,000 live births
  150. 150 China 5.7 per 1,000 live births
  151. 151 Croatia 5.6 per 1,000 live births
  152. 152 Canada 5.4 per 1,000 live births
  153. 153 Maldives 5.4 per 1,000 live births
  154. 154 Serbia 5.4 per 1,000 live births
  155. 155 Malta 5.3 per 1,000 live births
  156. 156 Russia 5.2 per 1,000 live births
  157. 157 Cyprus 5.0 per 1,000 live births
  158. 158 United Arab Emirates 4.8 per 1,000 live births
  159. 159 New Zealand 4.7 per 1,000 live births
  160. 160 Turks and Caicos Islands 4.7 per 1,000 live births
  161. 161 United Kingdom 4.7 per 1,000 live births
  162. 162 France 4.3 per 1,000 live births
  163. 163 Poland 4.2 per 1,000 live births
  164. 164 Denmark 4.0 per 1,000 live births
  165. 165 Ireland 3.9 per 1,000 live births
  166. 166 Netherlands 3.9 per 1,000 live births
  167. 167 Switzerland 3.9 per 1,000 live births
  168. 168 Greece 3.8 per 1,000 live births
  169. 169 Belgium 3.7 per 1,000 live births
  170. 170 Germany 3.7 per 1,000 live births
  171. 171 Hungary 3.7 per 1,000 live births
  172. 172 Australia 3.6 per 1,000 live births
  173. 173 Lithuania 3.4 per 1,000 live births
  174. 174 Austria 3.3 per 1,000 live births
  175. 175 Israel 3.3 per 1,000 live births
  176. 176 Portugal 3.2 per 1,000 live births
  177. 177 Spain 3.2 per 1,000 live births
  178. 178 Iceland 2.8 per 1,000 live births
  179. 179 North Macedonia 2.8 per 1,000 live births
  180. 180 South Korea 2.8 per 1,000 live births
  181. 181 Italy 2.7 per 1,000 live births
  182. 182 Monaco 2.7 per 1,000 live births
  183. 183 Singapore 2.7 per 1,000 live births
  184. 184 Czechia 2.6 per 1,000 live births
  185. 185 Andorra 2.5 per 1,000 live births
  186. 186 Latvia 2.5 per 1,000 live births
  187. 187 Norway 2.5 per 1,000 live births
  188. 188 Finland 2.4 per 1,000 live births
  189. 189 Japan 2.4 per 1,000 live births
  190. 190 Montenegro 2.4 per 1,000 live births
  191. 191 Sweden 2.4 per 1,000 live births
  192. 192 Belarus 2.3 per 1,000 live births
  193. 193 Slovenia 2.3 per 1,000 live births
  194. 194 Luxembourg 2.2 per 1,000 live births
  195. 195 Estonia 2.0 per 1,000 live births
  196. 196 San Marino 1.3 per 1,000 live births
  197. East Asia and Pacific 13.2 per 1,000 live births
  198. Euro area 3.7 per 1,000 live births
  199. Europe and Central Asia 7.8 per 1,000 live births
  200. European Union 3.9 per 1,000 live births
  201. Latin America and Caribbean 15.4 per 1,000 live births
  202. Middle East and North Africa 36.4 per 1,000 live births
  203. North America 6.4 per 1,000 live births
  204. OECD members 6.7 per 1,000 live births
  205. South Asia 26.8 per 1,000 live births
  206. Sub-Saharan Africa 71.2 per 1,000 live births
  207. World 37.4 per 1,000 live births
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