# Child mortality rate: Sri Lanka

0.59% 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 | 0.59 |
| 2023 | 0.61 |
| 2022 | 0.63 |
| 2021 | 0.66 |
| 2020 | 0.69 |
| 2019 | 0.72 |
| 2018 | 0.76 |
| 2017 | 0.79 |
| 2016 | 0.83 |
| 2015 | 0.87 |
| 2014 | 0.92 |
| 2013 | 0.98 |
| 2012 | 1.03 |
| 2011 | 1.08 |
| 2010 | 1.12 |
| 2009 | 2.15 |
| 2008 | 1.2 |
| 2007 | 1.26 |
| 2006 | 1.33 |
| 2005 | 1.4 |
| 2004 | 2.9 |
| 2003 | 1.52 |
| 2002 | 1.55 |
| 2001 | 1.58 |
| 2000 | 1.63 |
| 1999 | 1.69 |
| 1998 | 1.76 |
| 1997 | 1.86 |
| 1996 | 1.95 |
| 1995 | 2.05 |
| 1994 | 2.14 |
| 1993 | 2.22 |
| 1992 | 2.29 |
| 1991 | 2.32 |
| 1990 | 2.33 |
| 1989 | 2.79 |
| 1988 | 2.41 |
| 1987 | 2.53 |
| 1986 | 2.74 |
| 1985 | 3.02 |
| 1984 | 3.35 |
| 1983 | 3.67 |
| 1982 | 3.98 |
| 1981 | 4.29 |
| 1980 | 4.63 |
| 1979 | 4.99 |
| 1978 | 5.37 |
| 1977 | 5.76 |
| 1976 | 6.11 |
| 1975 | 6.38 |
| 1974 | 6.59 |
| 1973 | 6.73 |
| 1972 | 6.83 |
| 1971 | 6.91 |
| 1970 | 7.01 |
| 1969 | 7.13 |
| 1968 | 7.31 |
| 1967 | 7.55 |
| 1966 | 7.81 |
| 1965 | 8.07 |
| 1964 | 8.3 |
| 1963 | 8.48 |
| 1962 | 8.67 |
| 1961 | 8.96 |
| 1960 | 9.41 |
| 1959 | 9.99 |
| 1958 | 10.62 |
| 1957 | 11.25 |
| 1956 | 11.8 |
| 1955 | 12.23 |
| 1954 | 12.56 |
| 1953 | 12.82 |
| 1952 | 13.02 |
| 1951 | 13.2 |
| 1950 | 14.02 |

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