Gabon - Mortality rate, infant, male (per 1,000 live births)

The value for Mortality rate, infant, male (per 1,000 live births) in Gabon was 34.30 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 53 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 117.60 in 1967 and a minimum value of 34.30 in 2020.

Definition: Infant mortality rate, male is the number of male infants dying before reaching one year of age, per 1,000 male live births in a given 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
1967 117.60
1968 114.50
1969 111.60
1970 108.60
1971 105.80
1972 102.90
1973 100.20
1974 97.60
1975 95.00
1976 92.50
1977 90.10
1978 87.60
1979 85.30
1980 82.90
1981 80.80
1982 78.70
1983 76.70
1984 74.90
1985 73.20
1986 71.60
1987 70.20
1988 69.00
1989 67.90
1990 67.00
1991 66.10
1992 65.40
1993 64.70
1994 64.20
1995 63.50
1996 62.90
1997 62.20
1998 61.30
1999 60.40
2000 59.30
2001 58.20
2002 57.00
2003 55.70
2004 54.40
2005 53.10
2006 51.90
2007 50.30
2008 48.90
2009 47.80
2010 46.30
2011 45.00
2012 43.50
2013 42.20
2014 41.40
2015 40.20
2016 38.60
2017 37.60
2018 36.30
2019 35.20
2020 34.30

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 Extrapolations based on outdated surveys may not be reliable for monitoring changes in health status or for comparative analytical work.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