Korea - Number of under-five deaths

The value for Number of under-five deaths in Korea was 1,112 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 115,768 in 1960 and a minimum value of 1,112 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 115,768
1961 111,024
1962 105,998
1963 100,552
1964 94,658
1965 88,475
1966 82,081
1967 75,721
1968 69,664
1969 64,001
1970 58,917
1971 54,448
1972 50,607
1973 47,220
1974 44,209
1975 41,477
1976 38,916
1977 36,507
1978 34,225
1979 31,989
1980 29,759
1981 27,489
1982 25,135
1983 22,693
1984 20,242
1985 17,859
1986 15,700
1987 13,850
1988 12,356
1989 11,193
1990 10,302
1991 9,592
1992 8,981
1993 8,397
1994 7,818
1995 7,220
1996 6,611
1997 6,012
1998 5,447
1999 4,929
2000 4,461
2001 4,039
2002 3,657
2003 3,308
2004 2,986
2005 2,694
2006 2,445
2007 2,246
2008 2,090
2009 1,972
2010 1,881
2011 1,804
2012 1,730
2013 1,654
2014 1,575
2015 1,494
2016 1,412
2017 1,331
2018 1,254
2019 1,180
2020 1,112

Aggregation method: Sum

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Mortality