Vietnam - Mortality rate, infant (per 1,000 live births)

The value for Mortality rate, infant (per 1,000 live births) in Vietnam was 16.70 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 56 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 56.90 in 1964 and a minimum value of 16.70 in 2020.

Definition: Infant mortality rate is the number of infants dying before reaching one year of age, per 1,000 live births in a given year.

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
1964 56.90
1965 56.60
1966 56.30
1967 55.90
1968 55.60
1969 55.20
1970 54.70
1971 54.30
1972 53.70
1973 53.10
1974 52.40
1975 51.60
1976 50.80
1977 49.90
1978 49.00
1979 48.00
1980 47.10
1981 46.20
1982 45.40
1983 44.60
1984 43.80
1985 43.00
1986 42.10
1987 41.00
1988 39.80
1989 38.50
1990 37.10
1991 35.60
1992 34.10
1993 32.60
1994 31.10
1995 29.60
1996 28.20
1997 26.80
1998 25.60
1999 24.50
2000 23.50
2001 22.60
2002 21.70
2003 21.00
2004 20.40
2005 19.90
2006 19.40
2007 19.10
2008 18.80
2009 18.50
2010 18.30
2011 18.10
2012 17.90
2013 17.80
2014 17.60
2015 17.40
2016 17.30
2017 17.10
2018 17.00
2019 16.90
2020 16.70

Development Relevance: Mortality rates for different age groups (infants, children, and adults) and overall mortality indicators (life expectancy at birth or survival to a given age) are important indicators of health status in a country. Because data on the incidence and prevalence of diseases are frequently unavailable, mortality rates are often used to identify vulnerable populations. And they are among the indicators most frequently used to compare socioeconomic development across countries.

Limitations and Exceptions: Complete vital registration systems are fairly uncommon in developing countries. Thus estimates must be obtained from sample surveys or derived by applying indirect estimation techniques to registration, census, or survey data. Survey data are subject to recall error, and surveys estimating infant/child deaths require large samples because households in which a birth has occurred during a given year cannot ordinarily be preselected for sampling. Indirect estimates rely on model life tables that may be inappropriate for the population concerned. Extrapolations based on outdated surveys may not be reliable for monitoring changes in health status or for comparative analytical work.

Statistical Concept and Methodology: The main sources of mortality data are vital registration systems and direct or indirect estimates based on sample surveys or censuses. A "complete" vital registration system - covering at least 90 percent of vital events in the population - is the best source of age-specific mortality data. Estimates of neonatal, infant, and child mortality tend to vary by source and method for a given time and place. Years for available estimates also vary by country, making comparisons across countries and over time difficult. To make neonatal, infant, and child mortality estimates comparable and to ensure consistency across estimates by different agencies, the United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME), which comprises the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the World Health Organization (WHO), the World Bank, the United Nations Population Division, and other universities and research institutes, developed and adopted a statistical method that uses all available information to reconcile differences. The method uses statistical models to obtain a best estimate trend line by fitting a country-specific regression model of mortality rates against their reference dates.

Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual

General Comments: Given that data on the incidence and prevalence of diseases are frequently unavailable, mortality rates are often used to identify vulnerable populations. Moreover, they are among the indicators most frequently used to compare socioeconomic development ac

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Mortality