Marshall Islands - Mortality rate, infant (per 1,000 live births)

The value for Mortality rate, infant (per 1,000 live births) in Marshall Islands was 25.50 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 85.40 in 1960 and a minimum value of 25.50 in 2020.

Definition: Infant mortality rate is the number of infants dying before reaching one year of age, per 1,000 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
1960 85.40
1961 81.70
1962 78.40
1963 75.30
1964 72.40
1965 69.70
1966 67.40
1967 65.00
1968 62.70
1969 60.60
1970 58.50
1971 56.70
1972 55.10
1973 53.70
1974 52.80
1975 52.10
1976 51.60
1977 51.00
1978 50.50
1979 49.90
1980 49.20
1981 48.40
1982 47.40
1983 46.40
1984 45.20
1985 44.00
1986 42.80
1987 41.50
1988 40.20
1989 38.90
1990 37.60
1991 36.40
1992 35.30
1993 34.30
1994 33.70
1995 33.30
1996 33.20
1997 33.30
1998 33.50
1999 33.70
2000 33.90
2001 33.90
2002 33.80
2003 33.60
2004 33.40
2005 33.20
2006 32.90
2007 32.60
2008 32.30
2009 32.00
2010 31.70
2011 31.40
2012 30.90
2013 30.40
2014 29.70
2015 29.10
2016 28.40
2017 27.70
2018 26.90
2019 26.30
2020 25.50

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 Extrapolations based on outdated surveys may not be reliable for monitoring changes in health status or for comparative analytical work.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