# Child mortality rate: South America

1.39% 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 | 1.39 |
| 2023 | 1.42 |
| 2022 | 1.44 |
| 2021 | 1.46 |
| 2020 | 1.48 |
| 2019 | 1.51 |
| 2018 | 1.54 |
| 2017 | 1.57 |
| 2016 | 1.65 |
| 2015 | 1.6 |
| 2014 | 1.63 |
| 2013 | 1.68 |
| 2012 | 1.73 |
| 2011 | 1.79 |
| 2010 | 1.86 |
| 2009 | 1.94 |
| 2008 | 2.03 |
| 2007 | 2.12 |
| 2006 | 2.23 |
| 2005 | 2.35 |
| 2004 | 2.49 |
| 2003 | 2.63 |
| 2002 | 2.78 |
| 2001 | 2.95 |
| 2000 | 3.13 |
| 1999 | 3.32 |
| 1998 | 3.53 |
| 1997 | 3.74 |
| 1996 | 3.97 |
| 1995 | 4.21 |
| 1994 | 4.46 |
| 1993 | 4.72 |
| 1992 | 4.98 |
| 1991 | 5.23 |
| 1990 | 5.48 |
| 1989 | 5.73 |
| 1988 | 5.97 |
| 1987 | 6.23 |
| 1986 | 6.49 |
| 1985 | 6.83 |
| 1984 | 7.07 |
| 1983 | 7.39 |
| 1982 | 7.74 |
| 1981 | 8.1 |
| 1980 | 8.47 |
| 1979 | 8.85 |
| 1978 | 9.24 |
| 1977 | 9.63 |
| 1976 | 10.02 |
| 1975 | 10.4 |
| 1974 | 10.77 |
| 1973 | 11.53 |
| 1972 | 11.86 |
| 1971 | 12.19 |
| 1970 | 12.81 |
| 1969 | 12.81 |
| 1968 | 13.13 |
| 1967 | 13.48 |
| 1966 | 13.86 |
| 1965 | 14.26 |
| 1964 | 14.32 |
| 1963 | 14.75 |
| 1962 | 15.19 |
| 1961 | 15.64 |
| 1960 | 16.23 |

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