Child mortality rate: Africa, earlier editions
This site's figures come from the UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation's series as Our World in Data combines it in Our World in Data's edition of 9 June 2026. Its catalogue also keeps 2 earlier editions that include Africa, each below beside this site's figures.
- 25 April 2025: 53 of the 53 years in both differ from this site.
- 16 September 2024: 52 of the 52 years in both differ from this site.
In the table, · is the same figure as this site's, none is a year the edition has no figure for, and a blank is a year outside the edition. Earlier editions are given to six significant digits, since some are stored as single-precision numbers, and a year counts as differing only beyond that precision. An edition in another unit is given in its own unit and never compared. This site gives this series to 2 decimals, as Our World in Data's chart does, so an earlier figure counts as the same when it rounds to this site's.
| Year | This site (deaths per 100 live births) | 25 April 2025 | 16 September 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6.63 | ||
| 2023 | 6.81 | 5.90543 | |
| 2022 | 7.26 | 6.21697 | 6.05361 |
| 2021 | 7.15 | 6.27113 | 6.23229 |
| 2020 | 7.04 | 6.43201 | 6.42011 |
| 2019 | 7.21 | 6.65766 | 6.60628 |
| 2018 | 7.29 | 6.8301 | 6.79221 |
| 2017 | 7.59 | 7.16804 | 6.98209 |
| 2016 | 7.66 | 7.31134 | 7.17087 |
| 2015 | 7.79 | 7.49375 | 7.37678 |
| 2014 | 7.94 | 7.67559 | 7.57773 |
| 2013 | 8.03 | 7.79354 | 7.79644 |
| 2012 | 8.32 | 8.06981 | 8.05093 |
| 2011 | 8.9 | 8.53083 | 8.33424 |
| 2010 | 8.93 | 8.63882 | 8.64289 |
| 2009 | 9.43 | 9.08412 | 8.98749 |
| 2008 | 9.62 | 9.30388 | 9.36758 |
| 2007 | 10.05 | 9.70598 | 9.76372 |
| 2006 | 10.51 | 10.1186 | 10.1692 |
| 2005 | 11.04 | 10.5852 | 10.5756 |
| 2004 | 11.75 | 11.0205 | 11.0009 |
| 2003 | 12.23 | 11.414 | 11.4427 |
| 2002 | 12.77 | 11.8554 | 11.8954 |
| 2001 | 13.43 | 12.3202 | 12.3464 |
| 2000 | 13.8 | 12.7478 | 12.7817 |
| 1999 | 14.27 | 13.1611 | 13.1896 |
| 1998 | 15.06 | 13.6898 | 13.568 |
| 1997 | 15.15 | 13.8918 | 13.9049 |
| 1996 | 15.48 | 14.1803 | 14.1953 |
| 1995 | 15.4 | 14.4303 | 14.448 |
| 1994 | 15.81 | 14.8005 | 14.8456 |
| 1993 | 16.1 | 14.9138 | 14.8933 |
| 1992 | 16.25 | 15.3502 | 15.0626 |
| 1991 | 16.36 | 15.5003 | 15.2449 |
| 1990 | 16.24 | 15.4224 | 15.4422 |
| 1989 | 16.38 | 15.6421 | 15.6607 |
| 1988 | 17.86 | 16.2424 | 15.8928 |
| 1987 | 16.81 | 16.1838 | 16.1534 |
| 1986 | 17.63 | 16.9812 | 16.4423 |
| 1985 | 18.1 | 17.4528 | 16.8926 |
| 1984 | 18.43 | 17.8587 | 17.2432 |
| 1983 | 18.95 | 18.2737 | 17.6415 |
| 1982 | 18.52 | 17.8866 | 17.9233 |
| 1981 | 18.98 | 18.3032 | 18.3398 |
| 1980 | 19.82 | 18.778 | 18.8084 |
| 1979 | 20.11 | 19.1807 | 19.202 |
| 1978 | 20.58 | 19.6801 | 19.694 |
| 1977 | 21.05 | 20.1881 | 20.1964 |
| 1976 | 21.64 | 20.7022 | 20.7021 |
| 1975 | 22.47 | 21.5138 | 21.2078 |
| 1974 | 22.97 | 22.0249 | 21.6992 |
| 1973 | 23.25 | 22.7615 | 22.7543 |
| 1972 | 23.78 | 23.2657 | 23.2592 |
| 1971 | 23.75 | 23.6094 | 23.5815 |
| 1970 | none | 24.0042 | 23.9725 |
| 1969 | none | 24.3878 | 24.3529 |
| 1968 | none | 24.7274 | 24.67 |
| 1967 | none | 25.337 | 25.2853 |
| 1966 | none | 25.9519 | 25.9076 |
The editions in Our World in Data's catalogue: 25 April 2025 · 16 September 2024. This figure on this site · Revisions to child mortality rate · All editions.