Child mortality rate:
4/1000 live births
4/1000 live births
What is CHILD MORTALITY?
Definition by: UNICEF
"Child Mortality Rate is defined as the probability of dying between birth and exactly five years of age expressed per 1,000 live births."
Definition by: UNICEF
"Child Mortality Rate is defined as the probability of dying between birth and exactly five years of age expressed per 1,000 live births."
- Globally, under-five mortality rate has decreased by 53%, from an estimated rate of 91 deaths per 1000 live births in 1990 to 43 deaths per 1000 live births in 2015. T
- he risk of a child dying before completing five years of age is the highest in the African Region at 81 deaths per 1000 live births. It is 7 times higher than that in the WHO European Region at 11 per 1000 live births.
- Many countries still have very high under-five mortality with some with even an under-five mortality rate above 100 deaths per 1000 live births.
- In 2015, the under-five mortality rate in low-income countries was 76 deaths per 1000 live births – about 11 times the average rate in high-income countries 7 deaths per 1000 live births.
Bibliography
https://www.quandl.com/data/WORLDBANK/NLD_SH_DYN_MORT-Netherlands-Mortality-rate-under-5-per-1-000-live-births
https://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/stats_popup1.html
http://www.who.int/gho/child_health/mortality/mortality_under_five_text/en/