Sri Lanka - Number of infant deaths

The value for Number of infant deaths in Sri Lanka was 1,946 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 24,559 in 1960 and a minimum value of 1,946 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
1960 24,559
1961 23,763
1962 23,249
1963 22,902
1964 22,607
1965 22,277
1966 21,812
1967 21,260
1968 20,750
1969 20,350
1970 20,043
1971 19,807
1972 19,612
1973 19,412
1974 19,159
1975 18,792
1976 18,253
1977 17,544
1978 16,692
1979 15,759
1980 14,816
1981 13,918
1982 13,013
1983 11,997
1984 10,874
1985 9,761
1986 8,765
1987 7,970
1988 7,425
1989 7,673
1990 6,932
1991 6,770
1992 6,585
1993 6,369
1994 6,126
1995 5,878
1996 5,645
1997 5,433
1998 5,237
1999 5,059
2000 4,905
2001 4,789
2002 4,702
2003 4,627
2004 6,337
2005 4,409
2006 4,227
2007 4,014
2008 3,826
2009 5,037
2010 3,535
2011 3,373
2012 3,185
2013 2,984
2014 2,786
2015 2,599
2016 2,434
2017 2,292
2018 2,167
2019 2,051
2020 1,946

Aggregation method: Sum

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Mortality