# Child mortality rate: Afghanistan

5.3% in 2024, the latest year published. Figures for 68 years from 1957 to 2024 are below.

Long-run estimated share of newborns who die before reaching the age of five.

Source: Gapminder (2015); UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (2025) – processed by Our World in Data. [Source and method](/sources/child-mortality) · [All countries and regions](/child-mortality).

## Every year

| Year | Value (deaths per 100 live births) |
| ---: | ---: |
| 2024 | 5.3 |
| 2023 | 5.49 |
| 2022 | 5.68 |
| 2021 | 5.87 |
| 2020 | 6.07 |
| 2019 | 6.27 |
| 2018 | 6.48 |
| 2017 | 6.71 |
| 2016 | 6.94 |
| 2015 | 7.19 |
| 2014 | 7.46 |
| 2013 | 7.76 |
| 2012 | 8.08 |
| 2011 | 8.43 |
| 2010 | 8.8 |
| 2009 | 9.19 |
| 2008 | 9.61 |
| 2007 | 10.04 |
| 2006 | 10.48 |
| 2005 | 10.93 |
| 2004 | 11.39 |
| 2003 | 11.85 |
| 2002 | 12.31 |
| 2001 | 12.75 |
| 2000 | 13.17 |
| 1999 | 13.6 |
| 1998 | 14.02 |
| 1997 | 14.44 |
| 1996 | 14.88 |
| 1995 | 15.34 |
| 1994 | 15.83 |
| 1993 | 16.35 |
| 1992 | 16.91 |
| 1991 | 17.52 |
| 1990 | 18.14 |
| 1989 | 18.78 |
| 1988 | 19.43 |
| 1987 | 24.42 |
| 1986 | 25.05 |
| 1985 | 29.6 |
| 1984 | 30.38 |
| 1983 | 27.12 |
| 1982 | 27.7 |
| 1981 | 23.9 |
| 1980 | 24.52 |
| 1979 | 25.11 |
| 1978 | 25.69 |
| 1977 | 26.29 |
| 1976 | 26.86 |
| 1975 | 27.42 |
| 1974 | 27.95 |
| 1973 | 28.47 |
| 1972 | 33.79 |
| 1971 | 34.43 |
| 1970 | 30 |
| 1969 | 30.49 |
| 1968 | 31 |
| 1967 | 31.48 |
| 1966 | 31.95 |
| 1965 | 32.45 |
| 1964 | 32.97 |
| 1963 | 33.5 |
| 1962 | 34.02 |
| 1961 | 34.52 |
| 1960 | 35.06 |
| 1959 | 35.64 |
| 1958 | 36.21 |
| 1957 | 36.82 |

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