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Child Deaths Under 5 (This Year)
Estimated number of children under 5 who have died since January 1st. Calculated from the World Bank under-5 mortality rate (per 1,000 live births) applied to annual births derived from the crude birth rate and total population.
WLDTier 1 SourceVerified Mar 2026
Child Deaths Under 5 (This Year)
Official value (2023): 4,833,944
Child Deaths Under 5 (This Year) growth (2014–2023)
-26.0%·in time period
2014: 6,528,706.588 children, 2015: 6,261,129.757 children, 2016: 6,158,629.843 children, 2017: 5,898,468.685 children, 2018: 5,629,538.713 children, 2019: 5,469,765.654 children, 2020: 5,213,062.95 children, 2021: 5,096,391.63 children, 2022: 5,053,368.606 children, 2023: 4,833,943.968 children
How is this calculated? Read the methodology