# Child mortality rate: High-income countries

0.51% in 2024, the latest year published. Figures for 62 years from 1963 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 | 0.51 |
| 2023 | 0.51 |
| 2022 | 0.51 |
| 2021 | 0.51 |
| 2020 | 0.52 |
| 2019 | 0.52 |
| 2018 | 0.54 |
| 2017 | 0.55 |
| 2016 | 0.57 |
| 2015 | 0.58 |
| 2014 | 0.6 |
| 2013 | 0.62 |
| 2012 | 0.63 |
| 2011 | 0.65 |
| 2010 | 0.66 |
| 2009 | 0.68 |
| 2008 | 0.7 |
| 2007 | 0.72 |
| 2006 | 0.75 |
| 2005 | 0.78 |
| 2004 | 0.81 |
| 2003 | 0.83 |
| 2002 | 0.86 |
| 2001 | 0.89 |
| 2000 | 0.92 |
| 1999 | 0.95 |
| 1998 | 0.99 |
| 1997 | 1.03 |
| 1996 | 1.07 |
| 1995 | 1.12 |
| 1994 | 1.16 |
| 1993 | 1.22 |
| 1992 | 1.27 |
| 1991 | 1.33 |
| 1990 | 1.39 |
| 1989 | 1.46 |
| 1988 | 1.52 |
| 1987 | 1.58 |
| 1986 | 1.64 |
| 1985 | 1.69 |
| 1984 | 1.76 |
| 1983 | 1.82 |
| 1982 | 1.89 |
| 1981 | 1.97 |
| 1980 | 2.05 |
| 1979 | 2.13 |
| 1978 | 2.22 |
| 1977 | 2.32 |
| 1976 | 2.3 |
| 1975 | 2.4 |
| 1974 | 2.5 |
| 1973 | 2.61 |
| 1972 | 2.74 |
| 1971 | 2.86 |
| 1970 | 3.01 |
| 1969 | 3.16 |
| 1968 | 3.3 |
| 1967 | 3.42 |
| 1966 | 3.55 |
| 1965 | 3.7 |
| 1964 | 3.88 |
| 1963 | 4.03 |

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