# Child mortality rate: South Korea

0.28% in 2024, the latest year published. Figures for 75 years from 1950 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 | 0.28 |
| 2023 | 0.29 |
| 2022 | 0.29 |
| 2021 | 0.3 |
| 2020 | 0.31 |
| 2019 | 0.31 |
| 2018 | 0.32 |
| 2017 | 0.33 |
| 2016 | 0.34 |
| 2015 | 0.35 |
| 2014 | 0.36 |
| 2013 | 0.37 |
| 2012 | 0.38 |
| 2011 | 0.4 |
| 2010 | 0.41 |
| 2009 | 0.43 |
| 2008 | 0.45 |
| 2007 | 0.48 |
| 2006 | 0.52 |
| 2005 | 0.56 |
| 2004 | 0.6 |
| 2003 | 0.64 |
| 2002 | 0.68 |
| 2001 | 0.72 |
| 2000 | 0.76 |
| 1999 | 0.8 |
| 1998 | 0.85 |
| 1997 | 0.91 |
| 1996 | 0.98 |
| 1995 | 1.05 |
| 1994 | 1.14 |
| 1993 | 1.23 |
| 1992 | 1.33 |
| 1991 | 1.45 |
| 1990 | 1.57 |
| 1989 | 1.71 |
| 1988 | 1.87 |
| 1987 | 2.05 |
| 1986 | 2.24 |
| 1985 | 2.46 |
| 1984 | 2.69 |
| 1983 | 2.93 |
| 1982 | 3.16 |
| 1981 | 3.4 |
| 1980 | 3.63 |
| 1979 | 3.85 |
| 1978 | 4.04 |
| 1977 | 4.24 |
| 1976 | 4.42 |
| 1975 | 4.62 |
| 1974 | 4.83 |
| 1973 | 5.08 |
| 1972 | 5.37 |
| 1971 | 5.72 |
| 1970 | 6.14 |
| 1969 | 6.6 |
| 1968 | 7.11 |
| 1967 | 7.65 |
| 1966 | 8.19 |
| 1965 | 8.73 |
| 1964 | 9.24 |
| 1963 | 9.74 |
| 1962 | 10.23 |
| 1961 | 10.72 |
| 1960 | 11.29 |
| 1959 | 11.97 |
| 1958 | 12.82 |
| 1957 | 13.92 |
| 1956 | 15.37 |
| 1955 | 17.23 |
| 1954 | 19.66 |
| 1953 | 22.76 |
| 1952 | 26.61 |
| 1951 | 31.29 |
| 1950 | 36.94 |

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