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Under-5 mortality per 1,000 births
The probability that a child dies before turning five, per thousand births. In 1960 one child in five worldwide died at that age; today it is fewer than one in twenty.
2024: highest value – Nigeria (115.6 per 1,000 births), lowest – San Marino (1.3 per 1,000 births); 195 countries with data. World (as reported by the source): 37.4 per 1,000 births.
Source: World Bank
· UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation, UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) · CC BY 4.0
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