Nigeria - Number of under-five deaths
The value for Number of under-five deaths in Nigeria was 844,321 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 51 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 927,731 in 1997 and a minimum value of 685,578 in 1977.
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 |
|---|---|
| 1969 | 695,834 |
| 1970 | 695,678 |
| 1971 | 694,825 |
| 1972 | 694,281 |
| 1973 | 692,574 |
| 1974 | 690,521 |
| 1975 | 688,353 |
| 1976 | 686,407 |
| 1977 | 685,578 |
| 1978 | 686,064 |
| 1979 | 688,701 |
| 1980 | 693,623 |
| 1981 | 701,397 |
| 1982 | 712,528 |
| 1983 | 726,721 |
| 1984 | 743,602 |
| 1985 | 761,751 |
| 1986 | 781,043 |
| 1987 | 800,097 |
| 1988 | 817,861 |
| 1989 | 834,482 |
| 1990 | 849,565 |
| 1991 | 864,331 |
| 1992 | 878,418 |
| 1993 | 892,316 |
| 1994 | 905,297 |
| 1995 | 915,973 |
| 1996 | 923,706 |
| 1997 | 927,731 |
| 1998 | 927,475 |
| 1999 | 924,672 |
| 2000 | 919,793 |
| 2001 | 913,119 |
| 2002 | 905,027 |
| 2003 | 896,378 |
| 2004 | 886,271 |
| 2005 | 876,904 |
| 2006 | 868,312 |
| 2007 | 861,060 |
| 2008 | 856,849 |
| 2009 | 854,666 |
| 2010 | 855,195 |
| 2011 | 857,364 |
| 2012 | 860,957 |
| 2013 | 865,684 |
| 2014 | 870,336 |
| 2015 | 874,493 |
| 2016 | 875,473 |
| 2017 | 872,676 |
| 2018 | 865,781 |
| 2019 | 855,964 |
| 2020 | 844,321 |
Aggregation method: Sum
Periodicity: Annual
Classification
Topic: Health Indicators
Sub-Topic: Mortality
