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

The value for Mortality rate, infant (per 1,000 live births) in Mozambique was 52.80 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 53 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 182.40 in 1970 and a minimum value of 52.80 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
1967 181.50
1968 182.10
1969 182.40
1970 182.40
1971 182.30
1972 181.80
1973 181.30
1974 180.80
1975 180.10
1976 179.50
1977 179.10
1978 178.90
1979 178.80
1980 178.90
1981 178.90
1982 178.30
1983 177.20
1984 175.60
1985 173.70
1986 171.50
1987 169.40
1988 167.20
1989 165.10
1990 162.80
1991 160.50
1992 157.70
1993 154.20
1994 150.20
1995 145.30
1996 139.40
1997 132.80
1998 125.80
1999 119.00
2000 112.40
2001 106.10
2002 100.30
2003 95.30
2004 90.80
2005 86.90
2006 83.20
2007 78.00
2008 75.60
2009 72.70
2010 72.50
2011 68.80
2012 66.40
2013 64.70
2014 63.00
2015 61.30
2016 59.40
2017 57.50
2018 56.00
2019 54.30
2020 52.80

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 Extrapolations based on outdated surveys may not be reliable for monitoring changes in health status or for comparative analytical work.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