Middle income - Child and infant mortality

Number of infant deaths

The value for Number of infant deaths in Middle income was 2,679,259 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 30 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 7,189,403 in 1990 and a minimum value of 2,679,259 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
1990 7,189,403
1991 7,006,304
1992 6,811,946
1993 6,613,877
1994 6,419,667
1995 6,229,602
1996 6,046,680
1997 5,867,190
1998 5,689,235
1999 5,506,210
2000 5,324,225
2001 5,142,211
2002 4,963,298
2003 4,792,114
2004 4,639,862
2005 4,468,393
2006 4,316,605
2007 4,167,944
2008 4,033,807
2009 3,880,933
2010 3,753,111
2011 3,611,035
2012 3,485,897
2013 3,368,132
2014 3,257,351
2015 3,152,697
2016 3,054,667
2017 2,953,556
2018 2,856,973
2019 2,766,753
2020 2,679,259

Number of under-five deaths

The value for Number of under-five deaths in Middle income was 3,510,724 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 30 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 10,033,880 in 1990 and a minimum value of 3,510,724 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
1990 10,033,880
1991 9,782,047
1992 9,514,811
1993 9,239,030
1994 8,963,931
1995 8,690,679
1996 8,423,536
1997 8,159,832
1998 7,900,955
1999 7,628,270
2000 7,359,174
2001 7,089,859
2002 6,824,826
2003 6,570,987
2004 6,361,047
2005 6,092,741
2006 5,868,126
2007 5,647,062
2008 5,463,192
2009 5,220,632
2010 5,049,657
2011 4,822,237
2012 4,639,684
2013 4,470,658
2014 4,312,462
2015 4,166,315
2016 4,027,502
2017 3,889,231
2018 3,756,566
2019 3,631,864
2020 3,510,724

Number of neonatal deaths

The value for Number of neonatal deaths in Middle income was 1,733,118 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 30 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 4,286,507 in 1990 and a minimum value of 1,733,118 in 2020.

Definition: Number of neonates dying before reaching 28 days 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
1990 4,286,507
1991 4,179,146
1992 4,067,298
1993 3,957,486
1994 3,850,327
1995 3,747,421
1996 3,648,735
1997 3,551,578
1998 3,454,155
1999 3,357,212
2000 3,260,797
2001 3,156,825
2002 3,054,102
2003 2,953,000
2004 2,856,910
2005 2,766,505
2006 2,681,198
2007 2,599,822
2008 2,521,130
2009 2,441,835
2010 2,365,086
2011 2,289,937
2012 2,218,511
2013 2,150,230
2014 2,084,747
2015 2,023,069
2016 1,967,168
2017 1,908,337
2018 1,851,664
2019 1,790,906
2020 1,733,118

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Mortality