# Child mortality rate: Lower-middle-income countries

4.49% in 2024, the latest year published. Figures for 65 years from 1960 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 | 4.49 |
| 2023 | 4.61 |
| 2022 | 4.72 |
| 2021 | 4.84 |
| 2020 | 4.96 |
| 2019 | 5.09 |
| 2018 | 5.22 |
| 2017 | 5.37 |
| 2016 | 5.53 |
| 2015 | 5.72 |
| 2014 | 5.91 |
| 2013 | 6.12 |
| 2012 | 6.35 |
| 2011 | 6.59 |
| 2010 | 6.87 |
| 2009 | 7.11 |
| 2008 | 7.44 |
| 2007 | 7.68 |
| 2006 | 7.98 |
| 2005 | 8.3 |
| 2004 | 8.64 |
| 2003 | 8.99 |
| 2002 | 9.36 |
| 2001 | 9.74 |
| 2000 | 10.12 |
| 1999 | 10.5 |
| 1998 | 10.88 |
| 1997 | 11.22 |
| 1996 | 11.56 |
| 1995 | 11.86 |
| 1994 | 12.15 |
| 1993 | 12.42 |
| 1992 | 12.69 |
| 1991 | 12.98 |
| 1990 | 13.27 |
| 1989 | 13.57 |
| 1988 | 13.91 |
| 1987 | 14.26 |
| 1986 | 14.62 |
| 1985 | 15 |
| 1984 | 15.33 |
| 1983 | 15.82 |
| 1982 | 16.26 |
| 1981 | 16.7 |
| 1980 | 17.18 |
| 1979 | 17.69 |
| 1978 | 18.19 |
| 1977 | 18.7 |
| 1976 | 19.24 |
| 1975 | 20.08 |
| 1974 | 20.54 |
| 1973 | 20.53 |
| 1972 | 21.02 |
| 1971 | 22.6 |
| 1970 | 22.8 |
| 1969 | 22.76 |
| 1968 | 21.78 |
| 1967 | 22.05 |
| 1966 | 22.36 |
| 1965 | 22.68 |
| 1964 | 23 |
| 1963 | 23.37 |
| 1962 | 23.77 |
| 1961 | 24.2 |
| 1960 | 24.66 |

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