Health layer
Under-5 Mortality by country
Compare modelled under-five mortality rates across countries.
Compare under-5 mortality across countries on an interactive world map. Open any country for the latest value, the comparable-sample rank, the source, and the method.
What this measures
Higher modelled under-five mortality; lower modelled under-five mortality.
Unit: deaths per 1,000 live births. Under-five mortality rate.
Methodology
Values are World Bank World Development Indicators SH.DYN.MORT: under-five mortality rate, deaths per 1,000 live births. The figure is a modelled UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME) estimate — the probability per 1,000 that a newborn will die before reaching age five if subject to the age-specific mortality rates of that year. It is not a count of registered child deaths, a survey point estimate, infant mortality, neonatal mortality, a healthcare-quality score, or a composite health index. WDI republishes the IGME point estimate only; uncertainty intervals are not included. UN IGME Levels and Trends in Child Mortality 2025 treats 2024 as an estimate; 2025 and later scenario projections are omitted. OurBlueDot does not interpolate, fill missing years, replace missing values with zero, or add projections. Country rows are joined by ISO 3166-1 alpha-3; regional and income aggregates are excluded. Map ranks are comparable-sample competition ranks among currently loaded countries (rank 1 is the highest mortality). Lower values are more favorable. Missing countries remain without a value.
Example countries
Open under-5 mortality for a geographically diverse set of countries that currently have a comparable value. This is a crawl path, not a ranking.
Highest and lowest values
These lists use the same comparable-sample ranking as the map for 2024. They include only countries with a finite value among 192 available observations. Missing countries are unranked. This is not a complete world ranking.
High observed values
- Nigeria — 115.6 deaths per 1,000 live births
- Niger — 110.7 deaths per 1,000 live births
- Somalia — 101.1 deaths per 1,000 live births
- Chad — 97.3 deaths per 1,000 live births
- South Sudan — 96.7 deaths per 1,000 live births
Low observed values
- San Marino — 1.3 deaths per 1,000 live births
- Estonia — 2 deaths per 1,000 live births
- Luxembourg — 2.2 deaths per 1,000 live births
- Belarus — 2.3 deaths per 1,000 live births
- Slovenia — 2.3 deaths per 1,000 live births
Coverage & source
- Source
- World Bank World Development Indicators
- Original producer
- UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME)
- License
- CC BY 4.0
- Period
- 2024
- Frequency
- Annual
- Data nature
- modelled
How to read this layer
- Highest and lowest figures on this page are comparable-sample observations, not a complete world ranking. What does a rank mean?
Rankings, where shown, describe only countries with comparable values in the selected period.