Dem. People's Rep. Korea - Number of under-five deaths

The value for Number of under-five deaths in Dem. People's Rep. Korea was 5,839 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 30 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 32,759 in 1996 and a minimum value of 5,839 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.

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Year Value
1990 17,956
1991 20,381
1992 23,276
1993 26,311
1994 29,263
1995 31,557
1996 32,759
1997 32,566
1998 31,073
1999 28,389
2000 24,921
2001 21,301
2002 17,952
2003 15,316
2004 13,489
2005 12,441
2006 11,952
2007 11,642
2008 11,297
2009 10,857
2010 10,226
2011 9,546
2012 8,841
2013 8,268
2014 7,744
2015 7,330
2016 6,984
2017 6,669
2018 6,415
2019 6,116
2020 5,839

Aggregation method: Sum

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Mortality