Under-five mortality rate
What you should know about this indicator
- This long-run indicator is a combination of two data sources, Gapminder and the UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
- The historical data is compiled by Gapminder, the full range of sources used can be found in the Gapminder documentation.
Sources and processing
This data is based on the following sources
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Notes on our processing step for this indicator
This indicator is a combination of data from two sources:
- The UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME) provides estimates of child mortality rates, which is available for some countries from 1932.
- Gapminder provides estimates of child mortality rates for the years 1800 to 2015.
We combine the two datasets, for years where both are available, we have a preference for the UN IGME data.
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Citations
How to cite this page
To cite this page overall, including any descriptions, FAQs or explanations of the data authored by Our World in Data, please use the following citation:
“Data Page: Under-five mortality rate”, part of the following publication: Saloni Dattani, Fiona Spooner, Hannah Ritchie and Max Roser (2023) - “Child and Infant Mortality”. Data adapted from United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation, Gapminder, Various sources. Retrieved from https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/child-mortality [online resource]
How to cite this data
In-line citationIf you have limited space (e.g. in data visualizations), you can use this abbreviated in-line citation:
United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Full citation
United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data. “Under-five mortality rate – UN IGME; Gapminder – Long-run data” [dataset]. United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation, “United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation”; Gapminder, “Child mortality rate under age five v7”; Various sources, “Population” [original data]. Retrieved December 15, 2024 from https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/child-mortality