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Child mortality rate

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"This dataset provides annual estimates for 1950–2019 for numbers of deaths, mortality rate, and probability of death by sex for 6 age groups under 5 years: 0–6 days (early neonatal), 7–27 days (late neonatal), 1–5 months, 6–11 months, 12–23 months, and 2–4 years. There were 7417 sources used to produce these estimates. These included 28,016 location-years of vital registration data, 481 surveys with complete birth histories, and 1081 sources on summary birth histories."

Source

IHME, Global Burden of Disease (2019) – processed by Our World in Data

Last updated

December 19, 2020

Date range

1950–2019

Unit

Links

https://ghdx.healthdata.org/record/ihme-data/global-burden-disease-study-2019-gbd-2019-under-5-mortality-detailed-age-groups-1950-2019

Sources and processing

This data is based on the following sources

IHME, Global Burden of Disease (2019)

Data published by

Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation

Retrieved on

October 13, 2022

Retrieved from

https://ghdx.healthdata.org/record/ihme-data/global-burden-disease-study-2019-gbd-2019-under-5-mortality-detailed-age-groups-1950-2019

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“Data Page: Child mortality rate”. Our World in Data (2026). Data adapted from IHME, Global Burden of Disease (2019). Retrieved from https://archive.ourworldindata.org/20260513-081740/grapher/child-mortality-rate-ihme.html [online resource] (archived on May 13, 2026).

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IHME, Global Burden of Disease (2019) – processed by Our World in Data

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IHME, Global Burden of Disease (2019) – processed by Our World in Data. “Child mortality rate” [dataset]. IHME, Global Burden of Disease (2019) [original data]. Retrieved May 13, 2026 from https://archive.ourworldindata.org/20260513-081740/grapher/child-mortality-rate-ihme.html (archived on May 13, 2026).

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