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

The value for Mortality rate, infant (per 1,000 live births) in Jordan was 12.90 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 106.90 in 1960 and a minimum value of 12.90 in 2020.

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 106.90
1961 101.40
1962 96.20
1963 91.20
1964 86.70
1965 82.40
1966 78.50
1967 74.90
1968 71.50
1969 68.30
1970 65.40
1971 62.60
1972 60.00
1973 57.50
1974 55.10
1975 52.90
1976 50.80
1977 48.80
1978 46.80
1979 44.90
1980 43.10
1981 41.40
1982 39.70
1983 38.10
1984 36.60
1985 35.20
1986 33.90
1987 32.70
1988 31.50
1989 30.50
1990 29.50
1991 28.70
1992 27.80
1993 27.10
1994 26.30
1995 25.60
1996 25.00
1997 24.30
1998 23.70
1999 23.10
2000 22.50
2001 22.00
2002 21.40
2003 20.80
2004 20.20
2005 19.70
2006 19.20
2007 18.70
2008 18.10
2009 17.60
2010 17.20
2011 16.70
2012 16.20
2013 15.80
2014 15.40
2015 15.00
2016 14.60
2017 14.10
2018 13.70
2019 13.30
2020 12.90

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 Extrapolations based on outdated surveys may not be reliable for monitoring changes in health status or for comparative analytical work.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