Yemen - Child and infant mortality

Number of infant deaths

The value for Number of infant deaths in Yemen was 39,598 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 56 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 79,387 in 1964 and a minimum value of 35,858 in 2010.

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
1964 79,387
1965 79,088
1966 78,528
1967 77,658
1968 76,524
1969 75,148
1970 73,733
1971 72,247
1972 70,780
1973 69,406
1974 67,930
1975 66,408
1976 64,847
1977 63,254
1978 61,653
1979 60,095
1980 58,719
1981 57,426
1982 56,188
1983 55,117
1984 54,298
1985 53,737
1986 53,441
1987 53,382
1988 53,491
1989 53,707
1990 53,982
1991 54,162
1992 54,160
1993 53,970
1994 53,586
1995 53,037
1996 52,267
1997 51,229
1998 49,921
1999 48,398
2000 46,818
2001 45,219
2002 43,691
2003 42,239
2004 40,888
2005 39,655
2006 38,481
2007 37,383
2008 36,466
2009 35,909
2010 35,858
2011 36,296
2012 36,931
2013 37,316
2014 37,857
2015 38,887
2016 39,077
2017 39,264
2018 39,947
2019 40,076
2020 39,598

Number of under-five deaths

The value for Number of under-five deaths in Yemen was 51,560 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 52 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 112,328 in 1968 and a minimum value of 45,912 in 2010.

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
1968 112,328
1969 110,471
1970 108,579
1971 106,574
1972 104,590
1973 102,704
1974 100,586
1975 98,326
1976 95,903
1977 93,368
1978 90,761
1979 88,152
1980 85,600
1981 83,207
1982 80,939
1983 78,891
1984 77,184
1985 75,957
1986 75,190
1987 74,822
1988 74,752
1989 74,855
1990 75,114
1991 75,329
1992 75,364
1993 75,197
1994 74,788
1995 74,144
1996 73,133
1997 71,630
1998 69,605
1999 67,158
2000 64,531
2001 61,812
2002 59,239
2003 56,793
2004 54,513
2005 52,425
2006 50,430
2007 48,594
2008 47,045
2009 46,101
2010 45,912
2011 46,510
2012 47,452
2013 47,831
2014 48,693
2015 50,890
2016 51,064
2017 51,271
2018 52,799
2019 52,994
2020 51,560

Number of neonatal deaths

The value for Number of neonatal deaths in Yemen was 24,576 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 56 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 27,579 in 1992 and a minimum value of 22,378 in 2009.

Definition: Number of neonates dying before reaching 28 days 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
1964 25,645
1965 25,950
1966 26,179
1967 26,360
1968 26,417
1969 26,382
1970 26,297
1971 26,202
1972 26,110
1973 26,028
1974 25,939
1975 25,821
1976 25,703
1977 25,644
1978 25,624
1979 25,624
1980 25,655
1981 25,664
1982 25,684
1983 25,725
1984 25,768
1985 25,898
1986 26,116
1987 26,408
1988 26,745
1989 27,063
1990 27,319
1991 27,485
1992 27,579
1993 27,575
1994 27,493
1995 27,364
1996 27,152
1997 26,851
1998 26,479
1999 26,068
2000 25,609
2001 25,148
2002 24,706
2003 24,289
2004 23,886
2005 23,503
2006 23,129
2007 22,793
2008 22,493
2009 22,378
2010 22,510
2011 22,788
2012 23,140
2013 23,447
2014 23,749
2015 24,032
2016 24,204
2017 24,327
2018 24,430
2019 24,542
2020 24,576

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Mortality