Zambia - Number of under-five deaths

The value for Number of under-five deaths in Zambia was 38,955 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 70,606 in 1999 and a minimum value of 29,260 in 1960.

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 29,260
1961 29,730
1962 30,189
1963 30,718
1964 31,284
1965 31,965
1966 32,764
1967 33,637
1968 34,418
1969 35,042
1970 35,455
1971 35,610
1972 35,591
1973 35,551
1974 35,621
1975 35,988
1976 36,751
1977 37,854
1978 39,127
1979 40,459
1980 41,878
1981 43,251
1982 44,713
1983 46,536
1984 48,825
1985 51,433
1986 54,199
1987 56,953
1988 59,422
1989 61,586
1990 63,522
1991 65,273
1992 66,725
1993 67,741
1994 68,201
1995 68,539
1996 68,999
1997 69,714
1998 70,352
1999 70,606
2000 69,828
2001 67,400
2002 63,892
2003 60,187
2004 56,430
2005 53,063
2006 50,191
2007 48,429
2008 46,871
2009 44,963
2010 43,235
2011 42,756
2012 42,223
2013 40,729
2014 39,706
2015 39,901
2016 38,985
2017 39,095
2018 40,118
2019 39,955
2020 38,955

Aggregation method: Sum

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Mortality