Benin - Number of under-five deaths

The value for Number of under-five deaths in Benin was 35,910 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 38,381 in 1998 and a minimum value of 31,662 in 1960.

Definition: Number of children dying before reaching age five.

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 31,662
1961 31,875
1962 32,084
1963 32,300
1964 32,499
1965 32,673
1966 32,872
1967 33,078
1968 33,300
1969 33,510
1970 33,726
1971 33,947
1972 34,135
1973 34,307
1974 34,459
1975 34,609
1976 34,737
1977 34,884
1978 35,059
1979 35,261
1980 35,488
1981 35,742
1982 36,007
1983 36,284
1984 36,565
1985 36,830
1986 37,068
1987 37,307
1988 37,507
1989 37,679
1990 37,835
1991 37,965
1992 38,059
1993 38,134
1994 38,199
1995 38,265
1996 38,331
1997 38,371
1998 38,381
1999 38,360
2000 38,303
2001 38,234
2002 38,148
2003 38,070
2004 38,005
2005 37,952
2006 37,938
2007 37,956
2008 37,965
2009 37,995
2010 38,007
2011 37,971
2012 37,900
2013 37,792
2014 37,647
2015 37,488
2016 37,270
2017 37,035
2018 36,737
2019 36,339
2020 35,910

Aggregation method: Sum

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Mortality