Rationale & Definition
Provides information on the health impacts of social, economic and environmental conditions in a country
- Defined as the probability of dying between birth and exactly five years of age expressed per 1,000 live births
Methodology
- Country-specific estimates are derived from a variety of different sources, including vital registration systems, sample surveys and censuses
Data Sources
- Reported annually by the United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation in its database