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

The value for Mortality rate, infant, male (per 1,000 live births) in Namibia was 33.20 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 53 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 71.00 in 1979 and a minimum value of 33.20 in 2020.

Definition: Infant mortality rate, male is the number of male infants dying before reaching one year of age, per 1,000 male 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 66.90
1968 67.00
1969 67.20
1970 67.40
1971 67.70
1972 67.90
1973 68.30
1974 68.80
1975 69.30
1976 69.90
1977 70.40
1978 70.90
1979 71.00
1980 70.60
1981 69.70
1982 68.40
1983 66.60
1984 64.50
1985 62.20
1986 60.00
1987 57.90
1988 56.10
1989 54.50
1990 53.20
1991 52.10
1992 51.30
1993 50.70
1994 50.60
1995 50.80
1996 51.00
1997 50.90
1998 50.60
1999 50.00
2000 49.10
2001 48.30
2002 47.60
2003 47.40
2004 46.70
2005 43.10
2006 40.90
2007 41.20
2008 41.10
2009 42.10
2010 40.30
2011 40.40
2012 41.50
2013 39.30
2014 37.30
2015 36.70
2016 36.10
2017 35.30
2018 34.70
2019 34.00
2020 33.20

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 Extrapolations based on outdated surveys may not be reliable for monitoring changes in health status or for comparative analytical work.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