Japan - Number of under-five deaths

The value for Number of under-five deaths in Japan was 2,319 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 65,052 in 1960 and a minimum value of 2,319 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
1960 65,052
1961 59,145
1962 53,857
1963 49,209
1964 45,212
1965 41,875
1966 39,228
1967 37,195
1968 35,654
1969 34,453
1970 33,430
1971 32,376
1972 31,160
1973 29,697
1974 27,977
1975 26,048
1976 24,000
1977 21,965
1978 20,038
1979 18,284
1980 16,718
1981 15,327
1982 14,089
1983 12,977
1984 11,982
1985 11,100
1986 10,334
1987 9,683
1988 9,146
1989 8,712
1990 8,358
1991 8,059
1992 7,794
1993 7,527
1994 7,244
1995 6,938
1996 6,612
1997 6,272
1998 5,931
1999 5,602
2000 5,293
2001 5,018
2002 4,776
2003 4,569
2004 4,394
2005 4,237
2006 4,092
2007 3,953
2008 3,818
2009 3,687
2010 3,555
2011 3,540
2012 3,284
2013 3,143
2014 3,002
2015 2,864
2016 2,733
2017 2,612
2018 2,504
2019 2,409
2020 2,319

Aggregation method: Sum

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Mortality