United States - Number of under-five deaths

The value for Number of under-five deaths in United States was 24,976 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 126,969 in 1960 and a minimum value of 24,976 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
1960 126,969
1961 123,500
1962 119,520
1963 115,131
1964 110,450
1965 105,558
1966 100,573
1967 95,560
1968 90,612
1969 85,792
1970 81,178
1971 76,818
1972 72,703
1973 68,833
1974 65,194
1975 61,854
1976 58,872
1977 56,266
1978 54,055
1979 52,219
1980 50,709
1981 49,487
1982 48,527
1983 47,781
1984 47,221
1985 46,774
1986 46,387
1987 45,981
1988 45,474
1989 44,810
1990 43,940
1991 42,847
1992 41,575
1993 40,186
1994 38,778
1995 37,429
1996 36,224
1997 35,199
1998 34,372
1999 33,746
2000 33,312
2001 33,043
2002 32,899
2003 32,826
2004 32,777
2005 32,674
2006 32,448
2007 32,061
2008 31,513
2009 30,828
2010 30,050
2011 29,249
2012 28,469
2013 27,757
2014 27,137
2015 26,612
2016 26,176
2017 25,817
2018 25,515
2019 25,248
2020 24,976

Aggregation method: Sum

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Mortality