# Child mortality rate: Eritrea

3.43% in 2024, the latest year published. Figures for 56 years from 1969 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 | 3.43 |
| 2023 | 3.54 |
| 2022 | 3.66 |
| 2021 | 3.78 |
| 2020 | 3.91 |
| 2019 | 4.05 |
| 2018 | 4.19 |
| 2017 | 4.33 |
| 2016 | 4.47 |
| 2015 | 4.64 |
| 2014 | 4.81 |
| 2013 | 4.97 |
| 2012 | 5.14 |
| 2011 | 5.33 |
| 2010 | 5.52 |
| 2009 | 5.73 |
| 2008 | 5.96 |
| 2007 | 6.2 |
| 2006 | 6.47 |
| 2005 | 6.75 |
| 2004 | 7.05 |
| 2003 | 7.38 |
| 2002 | 7.73 |
| 2001 | 8.11 |
| 2000 | 8.53 |
| 1999 | 11.02 |
| 1998 | 9.5 |
| 1997 | 10.08 |
| 1996 | 10.73 |
| 1995 | 11.45 |
| 1994 | 12.24 |
| 1993 | 13.05 |
| 1992 | 13.86 |
| 1991 | 14.63 |
| 1990 | 15.34 |
| 1989 | 16 |
| 1988 | 16.57 |
| 1987 | 17.09 |
| 1986 | 17.54 |
| 1985 | 27.42 |
| 1984 | 27.94 |
| 1983 | 28.4 |
| 1982 | 18.94 |
| 1981 | 19.25 |
| 1980 | 19.54 |
| 1979 | 19.86 |
| 1978 | 20.19 |
| 1977 | 20.6 |
| 1976 | 21.03 |
| 1975 | 25.46 |
| 1974 | 22.05 |
| 1973 | 21.08 |
| 1972 | 21.3 |
| 1971 | 21.49 |
| 1970 | 21.69 |
| 1969 | 21.87 |

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