About this data

Source: Gapminder (2015); UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (2025), via Our World in Data

• Figures before 1950 come from Gapminder, which compiles historical estimates from national records; from 1950 they are UN estimates.
• Rates are per 1,000 live births: the number of children who die before their fifth birthday out of every 1,000 born.

This chart appears in Child and maternal health.