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Child mortality rate

Estimated share of newborns who die before age 5.

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The long-run estimated share of newborns who die before reaching the age of five.

Source: Gapminder (2015); UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (2025) – processed by Our World in Data · Unit: deaths per 100 live births · 1751-2024

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