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Infant mortality rate

The number of infants dying before reaching one year of age, per 1,000 live births in a given year.

Weighted average · not a median

First official point · 1990

64.0

deaths before age 1 per 1,000 live births

Latest official point · 2024

27.7

deaths before age 1 per 1,000 live births

Published World points

1990–2024

Gaps are years without a published World value. The line is not interpolated.

How this series is built

Birth-weighted average. Not a median of countries.

Official UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME) series, accessed via World Bank WDI. UN IGME is UNICEF, WHO, the World Bank, and UN DESA. Only years with a published World value are shown.

Source

Aggregate: Weighted average · not a median
Producer: UN IGME (UNICEF, WHO, World Bank, UN DESA)
Series: UN IGME child mortality estimates
Series code: SP.DYN.IMRT.IN
License: CC BY 4.0
Fetched: 2026-08-17

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