# Child mortality rate: Costa Rica

1.04% in 2024, the latest year published. Figures for 76 years from 1949 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 | 1.04 |
| 2023 | 1.01 |
| 2022 | 0.99 |
| 2021 | 0.96 |
| 2020 | 0.93 |
| 2019 | 0.91 |
| 2018 | 0.9 |
| 2017 | 0.89 |
| 2016 | 0.89 |
| 2015 | 0.9 |
| 2014 | 0.92 |
| 2013 | 0.95 |
| 2012 | 0.98 |
| 2011 | 1.02 |
| 2010 | 1.05 |
| 2009 | 1.07 |
| 2008 | 1.09 |
| 2007 | 1.11 |
| 2006 | 1.12 |
| 2005 | 1.13 |
| 2004 | 1.15 |
| 2003 | 1.18 |
| 2002 | 1.22 |
| 2001 | 1.26 |
| 2000 | 1.31 |
| 1999 | 1.36 |
| 1998 | 1.41 |
| 1997 | 1.45 |
| 1996 | 1.47 |
| 1995 | 1.49 |
| 1994 | 1.51 |
| 1993 | 1.53 |
| 1992 | 1.57 |
| 1991 | 1.62 |
| 1990 | 1.69 |
| 1989 | 1.78 |
| 1988 | 1.89 |
| 1987 | 2 |
| 1986 | 2.12 |
| 1985 | 2.2 |
| 1984 | 2.25 |
| 1983 | 2.27 |
| 1982 | 2.29 |
| 1981 | 2.34 |
| 1980 | 2.44 |
| 1979 | 2.65 |
| 1978 | 2.96 |
| 1977 | 3.38 |
| 1976 | 3.92 |
| 1975 | 4.54 |
| 1974 | 5.18 |
| 1973 | 5.83 |
| 1972 | 6.45 |
| 1971 | 7.01 |
| 1970 | 7.48 |
| 1969 | 7.85 |
| 1968 | 8.17 |
| 1967 | 8.48 |
| 1966 | 8.79 |
| 1965 | 9.02 |
| 1964 | 9.16 |
| 1963 | 9.24 |
| 1962 | 9.28 |
| 1961 | 9.37 |
| 1960 | 9.61 |
| 1959 | 10.05 |
| 1958 | 10.61 |
| 1957 | 11.18 |
| 1956 | 11.7 |
| 1955 | 12.14 |
| 1954 | 12.46 |
| 1953 | 12.69 |
| 1952 | 12.87 |
| 1951 | 13 |
| 1950 | 13.13 |
| 1949 | 13.22 |

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