Skip to content
Nations Inquiry — home

Dataset · UN IGME

Under-Five Mortality Rate

73 years, 1952–2024 · 200 countries · 3 measures

The under-five mortality rate is how many children out of every thousand born alive die before their fifth birthday. It is the single measure that most cleanly separates the 1950s from now: the worst reading in the file is 781 per 1,000 and the best is 1.26.

This site holds every year from 1952 to 2024, read from UN IGME’s own data and stored exactly as published.

Open Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2024Download all 73 · CSVSee it charted by country →
Share

Share this page

Under-Five Mortality Rate · the file

Newest
Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2024
Held
73 years · 12,958 rows
Licence
CC BY 3.0 IGO

0173 years

Every year

Every year comes from UN IGME’s 2025 release, recalculated on one method. Each opens the full table for that year; each downloads as a CSV.

1952bar height: countries covered, up to 2002024
Every year of Under-Five Mortality Rate held on this site, newest first, with its download files.
YearCountriesChangeReadDownload
Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2024Newest200±0September 9, 2026CSV
Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2023200±0September 9, 2026CSV
Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2022200±0September 9, 2026CSV
Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2021200±0September 9, 2026CSV
Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2020200±0September 9, 2026CSV
Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2019200±0September 9, 2026CSV
Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2018200±0September 9, 2026CSV
Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2017200±0September 9, 2026CSV
Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2016200±0September 9, 2026CSV
Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2015200±0September 9, 2026CSV
Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2014200±0September 9, 2026CSV
Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2013200±0September 9, 2026CSV
Show all 73 years
YearCountriesChangeReadDownload
Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2012200±0September 9, 2026CSV
Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2011200±0September 9, 2026CSV
Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2010200±0September 9, 2026CSV
Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2009200±0September 9, 2026CSV
Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2008200±0September 9, 2026CSV
Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2007200±0September 9, 2026CSV
Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2006200±0September 9, 2026CSV
Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2005200±0September 9, 2026CSV
Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2004200±0September 9, 2026CSV
Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2003200±0September 9, 2026CSV
Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2002200±0September 9, 2026CSV
Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2001200±0September 9, 2026CSV
Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2000200±0September 9, 2026CSV
Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1999200±0September 9, 2026CSV
Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1998200±0September 9, 2026CSV
Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1997200±0September 9, 2026CSV
Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1996200±0September 9, 2026CSV
Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1995200±0September 9, 2026CSV
Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1994200±0September 9, 2026CSV
Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1993200±0September 9, 2026CSV
Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1992200±0September 9, 2026CSV
Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1991200±0September 9, 2026CSV
Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1990200±0September 9, 2026CSV
Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1989200±0September 9, 2026CSV
Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1988200±0September 9, 2026CSV
Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1987200±0September 9, 2026CSV
Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1986200±0September 9, 2026CSV
Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1985200+8September 9, 2026CSV
Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1984192+3September 9, 2026CSV
Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1983189+1September 9, 2026CSV
Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1982188+3September 9, 2026CSV
Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1981185+3September 9, 2026CSV
Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1980182+1September 9, 2026CSV
Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1979181+1September 9, 2026CSV
Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1978180+3September 9, 2026CSV
Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1977177+1September 9, 2026CSV
Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1976176+2September 9, 2026CSV
Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1975174+4September 9, 2026CSV
Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1974170+2September 9, 2026CSV
Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1973168+1September 9, 2026CSV
Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1972167+2September 9, 2026CSV
Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1971165+5September 9, 2026CSV
Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1970160+1September 9, 2026CSV
Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1969159+5September 9, 2026CSV
Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1968154+5September 9, 2026CSV
Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1967149+3September 9, 2026CSV
Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1966146+1September 9, 2026CSV
Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1965145+2September 9, 2026CSV
Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1964143+3September 9, 2026CSV
Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1963140+3September 9, 2026CSV
Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1962137+2September 9, 2026CSV
Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1961135+1September 9, 2026CSV
Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1960134+3September 9, 2026CSV
Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1959131+5September 9, 2026CSV
Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1958126+8September 9, 2026CSV
Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1957118+3September 9, 2026CSV
Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1956115+10September 9, 2026CSV
Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1955105+8September 9, 2026CSV
Under-Five Mortality Rate, 195497+8September 9, 2026CSV
Under-Five Mortality Rate, 195389+8September 9, 2026CSV
Under-Five Mortality Rate, 195281—September 9, 2026CSV

Every year in one file, one row per country per year: under-five-mortality-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

025 columns

What’s in the file

Every column, what it holds, how it is stored and what its values look like — what a reader needs before opening the file.

Every column in the newest file of Under-Five Mortality Rate: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.
ColumnWhat it holdsStored asRange, 2024DistinctEmptySpread
CountrycountryNameThe country’s name, as this file spells it.Text—2000
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifierThe ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.Text · 3 letters—2000
Deaths before age five (per 1,000 live births)under_five_mortalityHeadlineThe headline figure: Deaths before age five (per 1,000 live births).Number · up to 14 decimals1.260San Marino115.649Nigeriamiddle 14.5392000
Lower bound (90% uncertainty)lowerwhiskerMeasureLower end of the 90% uncertainty interval around the estimate, in deaths before age five per 1,000 live births.Number · up to 15 decimals0.58988San Marino98.84799Nigeriamiddle 9.934882000
Upper bound (90% uncertainty)upperwhiskerMeasureUpper end of the 90% uncertainty interval around the estimate, in deaths before age five per 1,000 live births.Number · up to 14 decimals2.456Estonia283.181South Sudanmiddle 19.3532000

Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. A higher value is the worse result.

03200 countries across every year

Who is covered

How many countries each year holds, continent by continent, who joined and who left, and which places this site covers that the dataset never has.

All regions
Countries in each year of Under-Five Mortality Rate, by continent.
201320142015201620172018201920202021202220232024
Africa545454545454545454545454
Americas393939393939393939393939
Asia484848484848484848484848
Europe434343434343434343434343
Oceania161616161616161616161616
All200200200200200200200200200200200200

The newest 12 of 73 years.

Who joined and who left

  • 1985
    + Anguilla+ Andorra+ Guinea-Bissau+ Monaco+ Nauru+ San Marino+ Timor-Leste+ Kosovo
  • 1984
    + Bosnia and Herzegovina+ Montenegro+ Serbia
  • 1983
    + Suriname
  • 1982
    + Azerbaijan+ Equatorial Guinea+ Somalia
  • 1981
    + Croatia+ North Macedonia+ Slovenia
  • 1980
    + Angola
  • 1979
    + Uzbekistan
  • 1978
    + Albania+ Laos+ Mongolia

Not in this dataset · 25 places this site covers

UN IGME gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.

American SamoaArubaBermudaCayman IslandsChannel IslandsCuraçaoFaroe IslandsFrench PolynesiaGibraltarGreenlandGuamHong KongIsle of ManLiechtensteinMacauNew CaledoniaNorthern CyprusNorthern Mariana IslandsPuerto RicoSaint MartinSint MaartenSomalilandTaiwanUnited States Virgin IslandsVatican City

04Provenance

Where it comes from

The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.

The site’s method

  1. 1 · Publisher

    UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME)

    childmortality.org

  2. 2 · Their file

    UN IGME 2025 — under-five mortality, 2024

    .CME_MRY0T4._T._T

  3. 3 · Read by this site

    September 9, 2026

    Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.

  4. 4 · Stored as

    73 files, one per year

    Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as under-five-mortality-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

  5. 5 · Used on

    Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

    /statistics/under-five-mortalityA key for Health & Wellbeing in the Country Index.

Precision

The headline is stored to 14 decimals, as published.

Rounded by this site

Never. Tables on screen may show fewer decimals; the files never do.

Changed by this site

Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

From the UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation, read out of UNICEF’s own SDMX warehouse (CME_MRY0T4) rather than the World Bank’s copy, which rounds to one decimal and manufactured ties in every edition.

05Reuse

Licence and credit

What the publisher’s licence lets you do, what it asks of you, and a credit line and citation ready to copy.

Every publisher’s terms

Licence · checked September 9, 2026

CC BY 3.0 IGO

  • Share and redistribute it
  • Adapt it and build on it
  • Use it commercially
  • Credit the publisher
  • Say what you changed

The version of CC BY written for intergovernmental organisations. Credit the publisher and say what you changed.

A credit line

Source: UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME), Under-Five Mortality Rate, via Nations Inquiry.

Cite this dataset

UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME). Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1952–2024 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/under-five-mortality

The publisher’s own citation: UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation. Levels and Trends in Child Mortality. New York: UNICEF.

Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.

06Questions

Under-Five Mortality Rate: questions and answers

What is the Under-Five Mortality Rate?

The under-five mortality rate is how many children out of every thousand born alive die before their fifth birthday. It is the single measure that most cleanly separates the 1950s from now: the worst reading in the file is 781 per 1,000 and the best is 1.26.

Which years of the Under-Five Mortality Rate can I download?

All 73, from 1952 to 2024, each as a CSV file, or every year together in one CSV.

Does UN IGME rank countries on it?

No. UN IGME publishes values only. The positions shown on this site are derived by ordering the published values, and are labelled as ours.

Can I use it commercially?

Yes, under CC BY 3.0 IGO, with credit to UN IGME. The licence text is linked on this page.

Feedback

Feedback

How are we doing?

Two answers are required — a rating and your email. The rest is up to you.