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Child mortality, 1950-2017 (IHME, 2017)

  • Child mortality, 1950-2017 (IHME, 2017)

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  • Child mortality is the share of newborns who die before reaching the age of five.

    This data is available from 1950 to 2017 in 5-year intervals from the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) Global Burden of Disease study, available at: http://ghdx.healthdata.org/record/ihme-data/gbd-2017-all-cause-mortality-and-life-expectancy-1950-2017

  • Entity Year Child mortality 1950-2017 (IHME, 2018)
    Botswana 2017 25.14
    Central Sub-Saharan Africa 2017 83.1
    Argentina 2017 12.06
    Cape Verde 2017 23.31
    Guinea-Bissau 2017 81.62
    Bosnia and Herzegovina 2017 7.04
    Cote d'Ivoire 2017 95.67
    Bahamas 2017 14.61
    Fiji 2017 28.9
    Denmark 2017 4.05
    Chile 2017 8.88
    Colombia 2017 16.61
    Iceland 2017 2.46
    Afghanistan 2017 56.77
    Cambodia 2017 35.9
    Burkina Faso 2017 116.59
    Ethiopia 2017 61.58
    France 2017 4.25
    Bermuda 2017 6.82
    El Salvador 2017 13.49
    Eastern Europe 2017 9.75
    Bahrain 2017 8.52
    Belarus 2017 7.34
    Comoros 2017 50.19
    High SDI 2017 5.26
    Italy 2017 4.5
    India 2017 41.83
    Albania 2017 14.99
    Canada 2017 6.81
    Brazil 2017 20.19
    Austria 2017 4.81
    Estonia 2017 3.18
    Grenada 2017 16.55
    Guam 2017 15.78
    Germany 2017 4.88
    Caribbean 2017 39.69
    Dominica 2017 33.36
    Finland 2017 2.4
    Chad 2017 123.75
    Ghana 2017 63.76
    Gambia 2017 51.2
    Algeria 2017 24.11
    Belgium 2017 4.12
    Djibouti 2017 49.82
    Iran 2017 16.91
    Croatia 2017 5.59
    Australasia 2017 4.3
    Ireland 2017 4.73
    Azerbaijan 2017 38.24
    Czech Republic 2017 3.26
    Iraq 2017 26.65
    Bolivia 2017 32.44
    China 2017 13.16
    Costa Rica 2017 9.8
    Indonesia 2017 29.15
    American Samoa 2017 12.5
    Honduras 2017 16.92
    Cyprus 2017 3.2
    Israel 2017 4.85
    Armenia 2017 11.55
    Central Asia 2017 29.73
    Brunei 2017 10.97
    Central African Republic 2017 131.1
    Democratic Republic of Congo 2017 87.31
    Bangladesh 2017 34.26
    Belize 2017 20.67
    Cameroon 2017 79.71
    Equatorial Guinea 2017 59.16
    Dominican Republic 2017 33.13
    Andean Latin America 2017 21.91
    Guatemala 2017 27.83
    Greenland 2017 15.79
    East Asia 2017 13.24
    Guyana 2017 29.64
    Guinea 2017 103.06
    Central Latin America 2017 18.57
    Greece 2017 5.92
    Gabon 2017 41.51
    Barbados 2017 14.59
    Benin 2017 90.8
    Bulgaria 2017 9.56
    Central Europe 2017 6.28
    Georgia 2017 12.34
    Andorra 2017 2.11
    Egypt 2017 20.39
    Antigua and Barbuda 2017 13.81
    Eastern Sub-Saharan Africa 2017 68.32
    Cuba 2017 6.71
    Ecuador 2017 19.01
    Australia 2017 4.17
    Hungary 2017 5.23
    Congo 2017 60.9
    Bhutan 2017 30.07
    High-income North America 2017 7.23
    Burundi 2017 87.61
    High-income 2017 6.73
    Haiti 2017 64.54
    Angola 2017 71.04
    Eritrea 2017 51.33
    High-middle SDI 2017 12.54

  • Sources

    Data Published By: Global Burden of Disease Collaborative Network. Global Burden of Disease Study 2017 (GBD 2017) All-cause Mortality and Life Expectancy 1950-2017. Seattle, United States: Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), 2018.

    Data publisher source:

    Link: http://ghdx.healthdata.org/record/ihme-data/gbd-2017-all-cause-mortality-and-life-expectancy-1950-2017

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