Australia - Number of under-five deaths

The value for Number of under-five deaths in Australia was 1,176 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 5,562 in 1960 and a minimum value of 1,176 in 2020.

Definition: Number of children dying before reaching age five.

Source: Estimates developed by the UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UNICEF, WHO, World Bank, UN DESA Population Division) at www.childmortality.org.

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Year Value
1960 5,562
1961 5,487
1962 5,405
1963 5,324
1964 5,256
1965 5,211
1966 5,198
1967 5,222
1968 5,266
1969 5,300
1970 5,293
1971 5,222
1972 5,070
1973 4,837
1974 4,538
1975 4,201
1976 3,864
1977 3,560
1978 3,304
1979 3,104
1980 2,958
1981 2,859
1982 2,797
1983 2,756
1984 2,722
1985 2,685
1986 2,637
1987 2,578
1988 2,503
1989 2,412
1990 2,307
1991 2,192
1992 2,077
1993 1,968
1994 1,871
1995 1,790
1996 1,721
1997 1,663
1998 1,613
1999 1,569
2000 1,530
2001 1,503
2002 1,491
2003 1,492
2004 1,501
2005 1,510
2006 1,515
2007 1,510
2008 1,492
2009 1,461
2010 1,419
2011 1,370
2012 1,319
2013 1,272
2014 1,236
2015 1,212
2016 1,198
2017 1,191
2018 1,187
2019 1,183
2020 1,176

Aggregation method: Sum

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Mortality