South Sudan - Number of under-five deaths

The value for Number of under-five deaths in South Sudan was 37,678 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 36 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 64,091 in 1987 and a minimum value of 35,837 in 2012.

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
1984 62,947
1985 63,596
1986 63,961
1987 64,091
1988 63,845
1989 63,224
1990 62,247
1991 60,977
1992 59,293
1993 57,431
1994 55,535
1995 53,644
1996 51,924
1997 50,328
1998 48,740
1999 47,286
2000 45,912
2001 44,567
2002 43,436
2003 42,431
2004 41,576
2005 40,759
2006 40,017
2007 39,328
2008 38,617
2009 37,850
2010 37,034
2011 36,251
2012 35,837
2013 35,890
2014 36,266
2015 36,681
2016 36,994
2017 37,222
2018 37,393
2019 37,537
2020 37,678

Aggregation method: Sum

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Mortality