Nigeria - Number of infant deaths

The value for Number of infant deaths in Nigeria was 541,477 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 55 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 564,378 in 1999 and a minimum value of 415,341 in 1978.

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
1965 418,514
1966 418,797
1967 418,880
1968 419,493
1969 419,879
1970 420,366
1971 420,431
1972 420,568
1973 419,925
1974 418,875
1975 417,568
1976 416,235
1977 415,424
1978 415,341
1979 417,055
1980 419,945
1981 424,330
1982 430,519
1983 438,404
1984 447,821
1985 458,042
1986 469,002
1987 479,976
1988 490,419
1989 500,403
1990 509,708
1991 518,953
1992 527,921
1993 536,843
1994 545,324
1995 552,643
1996 558,513
1997 562,436
1998 564,104
1999 564,378
2000 563,369
2001 561,281
2002 558,620
2003 555,488
2004 551,419
2005 547,409
2006 543,784
2007 540,903
2008 539,660
2009 539,539
2010 540,794
2011 542,836
2012 545,541
2013 548,739
2014 551,797
2015 554,557
2016 555,616
2017 554,698
2018 551,611
2019 547,026
2020 541,477

Aggregation method: Sum

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Mortality