# Child mortality rate: Low-income countries

6.47% in 2024, the latest year published. Figures for 51 years from 1974 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 | 6.47 |
| 2023 | 6.73 |
| 2022 | 7.5 |
| 2021 | 7.27 |
| 2020 | 7.01 |
| 2019 | 7.29 |
| 2018 | 7.42 |
| 2017 | 7.96 |
| 2016 | 7.99 |
| 2015 | 8.14 |
| 2014 | 8.29 |
| 2013 | 8.28 |
| 2012 | 8.64 |
| 2011 | 9.48 |
| 2010 | 9.25 |
| 2009 | 9.92 |
| 2008 | 9.92 |
| 2007 | 10.39 |
| 2006 | 10.89 |
| 2005 | 11.49 |
| 2004 | 12.43 |
| 2003 | 12.91 |
| 2002 | 13.63 |
| 2001 | 14.46 |
| 2000 | 14.78 |
| 1999 | 15.33 |
| 1998 | 16.57 |
| 1997 | 16.49 |
| 1996 | 16.96 |
| 1995 | 16.73 |
| 1994 | 17.3 |
| 1993 | 17.92 |
| 1992 | 18.26 |
| 1991 | 18.5 |
| 1990 | 18.28 |
| 1989 | 18.58 |
| 1988 | 21.54 |
| 1987 | 19.55 |
| 1986 | 21.09 |
| 1985 | 22.02 |
| 1984 | 22.52 |
| 1983 | 22.99 |
| 1982 | 21.73 |
| 1981 | 21.86 |
| 1980 | 21.97 |
| 1979 | 22.05 |
| 1978 | 22.4 |
| 1977 | 22.7 |
| 1976 | 23.21 |
| 1975 | 24.14 |
| 1974 | 24.36 |

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