Dominica - Mortality rate, infant (per 1,000 live births)

The value for Mortality rate, infant (per 1,000 live births) in Dominica was 31.70 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 84.00 in 1960 and a minimum value of 12.70 in 1992.

Definition: Infant mortality rate is the number of infants dying before reaching one year of age, per 1,000 live births in a given year.

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 84.00
1961 77.30
1962 71.10
1963 65.50
1964 60.20
1965 55.40
1966 51.00
1967 47.00
1968 43.20
1969 39.80
1970 36.70
1971 33.90
1972 31.40
1973 29.00
1974 26.90
1975 25.00
1976 23.20
1977 21.70
1978 20.30
1979 21.00
1980 18.00
1981 17.10
1982 16.30
1983 15.50
1984 14.90
1985 14.40
1986 14.00
1987 13.60
1988 13.30
1989 13.10
1990 12.90
1991 12.80
1992 12.70
1993 12.70
1994 12.80
1995 12.80
1996 13.00
1997 13.20
1998 13.40
1999 13.70
2000 14.10
2001 14.50
2002 14.90
2003 15.50
2004 16.10
2005 16.80
2006 17.50
2007 18.30
2008 19.20
2009 20.20
2010 21.30
2011 22.50
2012 23.70
2013 25.00
2014 26.20
2015 27.50
2016 28.70
2017 29.70
2018 30.60
2019 31.20
2020 31.70

Development Relevance: Mortality rates for different age groups (infants, children, and adults) and overall mortality indicators (life expectancy at birth or survival to a given age) are important indicators of health status in a country. Because data on the incidence and prevalence of diseases are frequently unavailable, mortality rates are often used to identify vulnerable populations. And they are among the indicators most frequently used to compare socioeconomic development across countries.

Limitations and Exceptions: Complete vital registration systems are fairly uncommon in developing countries. Thus estimates must be obtained from sample surveys or derived by applying indirect estimation techniques to registration, census, or survey data. Survey data are subject to recall error, and surveys estimating infant/child deaths require large samples because households in which a birth has occurred during a given year cannot ordinarily be preselected for sampling. Indirect estimates rely on model life tables that may be inappropriate for the population concerned. Extrapolations based on outdated surveys may not be reliable for monitoring changes in health status or for comparative analytical work.

Statistical Concept and Methodology: The main sources of mortality data are vital registration systems and direct or indirect estimates based on sample surveys or censuses. A "complete" vital registration system - covering at least 90 percent of vital events in the population - is the best source of age-specific mortality data. Estimates of neonatal, infant, and child mortality tend to vary by source and method for a given time and place. Years for available estimates also vary by country, making comparisons across countries and over time difficult. To make neonatal, infant, and child mortality estimates comparable and to ensure consistency across estimates by different agencies, the United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME), which comprises the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the World Health Organization (WHO), the World Bank, the United Nations Population Division, and other universities and research institutes, developed and adopted a statistical method that uses all available information to reconcile differences. The method uses statistical models to obtain a best estimate trend line by fitting a country-specific regression model of mortality rates against their reference dates.

Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual

General Comments: Given that data on the incidence and prevalence of diseases are frequently unavailable, mortality rates are often used to identify vulnerable populations. Moreover, they are among the indicators most frequently used to compare socioeconomic development ac

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Mortality