Costa Rica - Mortality rate, under-5, female (per 1,000 live births)

The value for Mortality rate, under-5, female (per 1,000 live births) in Costa Rica was 7.30 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 91.00 in 1960 and a minimum value of 7.30 in 2020.

Definition: Under-five mortality rate, female is the probability per 1,000 that a newborn female baby will die before reaching age five, if subject to female age-specific mortality rates of the specified 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
1960 91.00
1961 88.60
1962 87.30
1963 86.70
1964 86.10
1965 84.90
1966 82.70
1967 80.00
1968 76.80
1969 73.20
1970 69.10
1971 64.50
1972 59.00
1973 53.10
1974 46.80
1975 40.50
1976 34.90
1977 30.00
1978 26.10
1979 23.20
1980 21.40
1981 20.40
1982 20.00
1983 19.80
1984 19.60
1985 19.20
1986 18.50
1987 17.50
1988 16.50
1989 15.60
1990 14.80
1991 14.20
1992 13.80
1993 13.50
1994 13.30
1995 13.20
1996 13.00
1997 12.80
1998 12.50
1999 12.10
2000 11.60
2001 11.20
2002 10.90
2003 10.60
2004 10.40
2005 10.20
2006 10.10
2007 10.00
2008 9.90
2009 9.80
2010 9.60
2011 9.30
2012 9.10
2013 8.80
2014 8.60
2015 8.40
2016 8.20
2017 8.00
2018 7.80
2019 7.60
2020 7.30

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