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Under-5 mortality

Deaths under five per 1,000. World 94→37; rich countries far lower.

per 1,000 live births

The file

Deaths under age five per 1,000 live births. Same geos as Infant mortality.

The indicator

SH.DYN.MORT includes infancy plus the next four years. If infant falls and under-5 does not, the problem is after year one.

What the numbers show

Poland 65 → 4.2; world 94 → 37. The rich–world gap is still wide. Read with Life expectancy at birth and Health expenditure.

Source
World Bank Open Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Last publisher update
2026-07-13
Retrieved
2026-09-15
Warehouse version
v21

Cite

Longseries, “Under-5 mortality”. World Bank Open Data (SH.DYN.MORT), 1960–2024, Brazil, China, Czechia, Germany, Spain, France, United Kingdom, India, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, United States, World. Retrieved 2026-09-15. CC BY 4.0. Warehouse v21. https://longseries.com/en/d/under5-mortality/

No revisions in this copy yet — cron will append them when a publisher changes a past value.

Latest values

Sorted by the latest published value. The rest of the file is under the fold.

15 places — sorted by latest value
CountryYearValue
World202437.4
India202426.6
Brazil202414.2
United States20246.5
China20245.7
United Kingdom20244.7
France20244.3
Poland20244.2
The rest of the places (7)
Remaining 7 places
Netherlands20243.9
Germany20243.7
Spain20243.2
Italy20242.7
Czechia20242.6
Sweden20242.4
Japan20242.4

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