Child mortality rate, 2021
The estimated share of newborns who die before reaching the age of five.
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Charts
- Causes of death in children under five
- Child deaths from diseases caused by invasive pneumococcus
- Child deaths from malaria
- Child deaths in the first five years of life by age groupLine chart
- Child deaths in the first year of life
- Child mortality by causeIHME
- Child mortality by income level of country
- Child mortality by sexUN IGME
- Child mortality by the type of congenital birth defect
- Child mortality from respiratory infections vs. access to clean fuels for cooking
- Child mortality from respiratory infections vs. share taken to a healthcare provider
- Child mortality in the past vs. todayUN IGME
- Child mortality rateIHME, GBD
- Child mortality rateUN WPP
- Child mortality rateLong-run data; Gapminder & UN IGME
- Child mortality rateUN IGME with SDG target
- Child mortality rateUN IGME, slope chart
- Child mortality rateGapminder & UN IGME
- Child mortality rate by cause
- Child mortality rate by household wealth
- Child mortality rate by sexUN IGME
- Child mortality rate by source
- Child mortality rate vs. GDP per capita
- Child mortality rate vs. electoral democracy
- Child mortality rate vs. mean male height
- Child mortality rate vs. share of population practicing open defecation
- Child mortality rate, including UN projections
- Child mortality vs. CO₂ emissions per capita
- Child mortality vs. average years of schooling for women
- Child mortality vs. health expenditure
- Child mortality vs. level of prosperity
- Child mortality vs. per capita health expenditure
- Child mortality vs. prevalence of child wasting
- Child mortality vs. prevalence of stunting
- Child mortality vs. prevalence of teenage pregnancy
- Child mortality vs. share in extreme poverty
- Child mortality vs. share of children immunized against diphtheria, pertussis, and tetanus
- Child mortality vs. share of children who are anemic
- Child mortality vs. share with respiratory infections taken to a healthcare provider
- Child mortality: IHME vs. UN IGME estimates
- Childhood deaths from the most lethal infectious diseases
- Children per woman that survived childhood vs. those that died in childhood
- Children with diarrheal disease vs. oral rehydration salts
- Congenital birth defect mortality rates in children under-5
- Death rate from neonatal preterm birth complications
- Death rate from pneumonia and other lower respiratory infections in children
- Deaths by risk factor for ages 5-14
- Diarrheal diseases death rate in children under fiveBy world region
- Diarrheal diseases death rate in children vs. access to basic handwashing facilities
- Drowning death rate in children under the age of 5
- Fertility rate vs. child mortality
- Global child deaths by cause
- Global child mortalityGapminder & UN IGME
- Global infant mortality by cause for boys vs. girls
- Global infant mortality rate with and without vaccines
- Has country already reached SDG target on child mortality?
- Infant mortality by sex
- Infant mortality rateUN IGME
- Infant mortality rateIHME
- Infant mortality rateUN WPP
- Infant mortality rate by sexWorld Bank; UN IGME
- Infant mortality rates in England and Wales
- Infant mortality vs. prevalence of prenatal care
- Life satisfaction vs. child mortality
- Live births in England and Wales at or under 22 weeks gestation
- MDG4.A: Child mortality rate
- Major causes of child deaths
- Malnutrition: Number of children who are underweight
- Maternal mortality ratio vs. neonatal mortality
- Meningitis death rate in children
- Mothers who have lost a child under five, across birth cohorts
- Neonatal asphyxia and trauma mortality rates
- Neonatal deaths by cause
- Neonatal mortality rateUN IGME
- Neonatal mortality rateIHME
- Neonatal mortality rate
- Neonatal mortality vs. births attended by skilled health staff
- Number of child deathsSlope chart
- Number of child deathsIHME
- Number of child deathsUN IGME
- Number of child deaths by ageUN IGME
- Number of child deaths by regionUN IGME
- Number of child deaths by source
- Number of child deaths by the type of congenital birth defect
- Number of child deaths by world regionUN WPP
- Number of child deaths per woman
- Number of deaths by ageUN
- Number of deaths from pneumonia in children under five
- Number of infant deathsUN IGME
- Number of infant deathsIHME
- Number of infant deathsUN WPP
- Number of infant deathsUN via WHO
- Number of neonatal deathsIHME
- Number of neonatal deathsUN IGME
- Number of neonatal deaths by region
- Number of neonatal, infant and child deaths
- Number of new tetanus cases in children under-5
- Number of youth deaths
- Probability of dying in infancy, by sex
- Protein-energy malnutrition mortality rates in children
- Rotavirus deaths in children under five
- Rotavirus deaths that were preventable in children under five
- Share of children with a respiratory infection taken to a healthcare provider
- Share of children with an active hepatitis B infection
- Share of children with symptoms of pneumonia who are taken to a health provider
- Share of mothers visited by a health professional during pregnancy
- Share of mothers who have lost a child under five
- Share of mothers who have lost an infant
- Stillbirth rate
- Tetanus mortality in children under-5
- UN projection of infant deaths
- Under-five mortality vs. prevalence of anemia in pregnant women
- Youth mortality rate