# Child mortality rate: Upper-middle-income countries

1.38% 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 | 1.38 |
| 2023 | 1.43 |
| 2022 | 1.43 |
| 2021 | 1.44 |
| 2020 | 1.46 |
| 2019 | 1.48 |
| 2018 | 1.51 |
| 2017 | 1.55 |
| 2016 | 1.63 |
| 2015 | 1.69 |
| 2014 | 1.76 |
| 2013 | 1.84 |
| 2012 | 1.93 |
| 2011 | 2.02 |
| 2010 | 2.12 |
| 2009 | 2.25 |
| 2008 | 2.38 |
| 2007 | 2.52 |
| 2006 | 2.67 |
| 2005 | 2.82 |
| 2004 | 3.06 |
| 2003 | 3.15 |
| 2002 | 3.33 |
| 2001 | 3.52 |
| 2000 | 3.71 |
| 1999 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 4.09 |
| 1997 | 4.29 |
| 1996 | 4.48 |
| 1995 | 4.67 |
| 1994 | 4.87 |
| 1993 | 5.06 |
| 1992 | 5.25 |
| 1991 | 5.42 |
| 1990 | 5.59 |
| 1989 | 5.74 |
| 1988 | 5.89 |
| 1987 | 6.01 |
| 1986 | 6.18 |
| 1985 | 6.41 |
| 1984 | 6.63 |
| 1983 | 6.87 |
| 1982 | 7.16 |
| 1981 | 7.48 |
| 1980 | 7.8 |
| 1979 | 8.16 |
| 1978 | 8.53 |
| 1977 | 8.89 |
| 1976 | 9.28 |
| 1975 | 9.63 |
| 1974 | 10.13 |

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