Lesotho - Number of infant deaths

The value for Number of infant deaths in Lesotho was 3,859 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 5,956 in 1973 and a minimum value of 3,859 in 2020.

Definition: Number of infants dying before reaching one year of age.

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 4,899
1961 4,970
1962 5,077
1963 5,201
1964 5,335
1965 5,471
1966 5,593
1967 5,695
1968 5,781
1969 5,845
1970 5,889
1971 5,923
1972 5,949
1973 5,956
1974 5,941
1975 5,892
1976 5,815
1977 5,717
1978 5,601
1979 5,469
1980 5,317
1981 5,161
1982 5,002
1983 4,846
1984 4,701
1985 4,559
1986 4,424
1987 4,294
1988 4,178
1989 4,076
1990 3,998
1991 3,948
1992 3,934
1993 3,965
1994 4,015
1995 4,073
1996 4,119
1997 4,145
1998 4,182
1999 4,224
2000 4,281
2001 4,332
2002 4,384
2003 4,438
2004 4,468
2005 4,489
2006 4,472
2007 4,381
2008 4,526
2009 4,280
2010 4,091
2011 3,961
2012 4,012
2013 4,043
2014 4,085
2015 4,113
2016 4,116
2017 4,114
2018 4,033
2019 3,973
2020 3,859

Aggregation method: Sum

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Mortality