South Africa - Number of under-five deaths
The value for Number of under-five deaths in South Africa was 37,807 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 41 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 97,213 in 1979 and a minimum value of 37,807 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 |
|---|---|
| 1979 | 97,213 |
| 1980 | 94,591 |
| 1981 | 92,096 |
| 1982 | 89,742 |
| 1983 | 87,463 |
| 1984 | 85,089 |
| 1985 | 82,606 |
| 1986 | 79,895 |
| 1987 | 76,945 |
| 1988 | 73,887 |
| 1989 | 70,968 |
| 1990 | 68,241 |
| 1991 | 66,039 |
| 1992 | 64,471 |
| 1993 | 63,814 |
| 1994 | 64,027 |
| 1995 | 64,998 |
| 1996 | 66,432 |
| 1997 | 67,803 |
| 1998 | 69,638 |
| 1999 | 71,554 |
| 2000 | 73,067 |
| 2001 | 74,876 |
| 2002 | 76,626 |
| 2003 | 78,914 |
| 2004 | 82,102 |
| 2005 | 84,721 |
| 2006 | 86,629 |
| 2007 | 83,796 |
| 2008 | 77,985 |
| 2009 | 69,407 |
| 2010 | 60,679 |
| 2011 | 53,903 |
| 2012 | 49,417 |
| 2013 | 47,013 |
| 2014 | 45,130 |
| 2015 | 43,546 |
| 2016 | 42,080 |
| 2017 | 41,205 |
| 2018 | 40,146 |
| 2019 | 38,969 |
| 2020 | 37,807 |
Aggregation method: Sum
Periodicity: Annual
Classification
Topic: Health Indicators
Sub-Topic: Mortality
