South Africa - Number of infant deaths

The value for Number of infant deaths in South Africa was 30,153 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 45 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 78,927 in 1975 and a minimum value of 30,153 in 2020.

Definition: Number of infants dying before reaching one year of age.

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
1975 78,927
1976 76,526
1977 74,416
1978 72,604
1979 70,947
1980 69,505
1981 68,153
1982 66,809
1983 65,460
1984 63,994
1985 62,393
1986 60,580
1987 58,537
1988 56,396
1989 54,314
1990 52,305
1991 50,598
1992 49,223
1993 48,334
1994 47,862
1995 47,723
1996 47,749
1997 47,681
1998 47,767
1999 48,219
2000 48,469
2001 48,934
2002 49,545
2003 50,713
2004 52,688
2005 53,752
2006 54,092
2007 52,751
2008 49,598
2009 44,926
2010 40,694
2011 38,338
2012 37,180
2013 36,173
2014 35,302
2015 34,249
2016 33,356
2017 32,777
2018 31,810
2019 30,937
2020 30,153

Aggregation method: Sum

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Mortality