China - Number of under-five deaths
The value for Number of under-five deaths in China was 121,395 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 46 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 2,429,513 in 1974 and a minimum value of 121,395 in 2020.
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.
See also:
| Year | Value |
|---|---|
| 1974 | 2,429,513 |
| 1975 | 2,181,334 |
| 1976 | 1,949,754 |
| 1977 | 1,744,390 |
| 1978 | 1,569,149 |
| 1979 | 1,430,092 |
| 1980 | 1,327,889 |
| 1981 | 1,264,334 |
| 1982 | 1,234,849 |
| 1983 | 1,236,930 |
| 1984 | 1,264,742 |
| 1985 | 1,308,351 |
| 1986 | 1,356,539 |
| 1987 | 1,398,340 |
| 1988 | 1,420,112 |
| 1989 | 1,414,627 |
| 1990 | 1,377,689 |
| 1991 | 1,311,812 |
| 1992 | 1,226,332 |
| 1993 | 1,131,976 |
| 1994 | 1,039,912 |
| 1995 | 956,221 |
| 1996 | 883,536 |
| 1997 | 820,169 |
| 1998 | 762,135 |
| 1999 | 706,168 |
| 2000 | 651,151 |
| 2001 | 596,948 |
| 2002 | 544,386 |
| 2003 | 494,739 |
| 2004 | 449,630 |
| 2005 | 409,142 |
| 2006 | 373,950 |
| 2007 | 343,668 |
| 2008 | 317,604 |
| 2009 | 294,594 |
| 2010 | 273,880 |
| 2011 | 254,567 |
| 2012 | 236,339 |
| 2013 | 219,188 |
| 2014 | 202,801 |
| 2015 | 187,246 |
| 2016 | 172,480 |
| 2017 | 158,528 |
| 2018 | 145,311 |
| 2019 | 132,923 |
| 2020 | 121,395 |
Aggregation method: Sum
Periodicity: Annual
Classification
Topic: Health Indicators
Sub-Topic: Mortality
