Under-5 mortality in Asia

48 countries in Asia, 2024. Unit: per 1,000 live births. World ranking →

First in the ranking
2.4 ‰
Japan
Median country
13.4 ‰
half above, half below
World
37.4 ‰
World Bank aggregate
Range
2.4 to 56.0
Japan - Pakistan

How to read it

Across 48 countries in Asia, the highest value is in Pakistan (56.0 ‰) and the lowest in Japan (2.4 ‰).

The median country is at 13.4 ‰: half are above, half below.

Under-five mortality rate is the probability per 1,000 that a newborn baby will die before reaching age five, if subject to age-specific mortality rates of the specified year.

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Source: UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation, UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), uri: www.childmortality.org, publisher: UNICEF, WHO, World Bank, United… · via World Bank WDI (SH.DYN.MORT) · licence

Under-5 mortality over time

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Ranking of countries

2024
In chart Share of the highest value
1Japan2.4
2Singapore2.7
3South Korea2.8
4Israel3.3
5United Arab Emirates4.8
6Cyprus5.0
7Maldives5.4
8China5.7
9Sri Lanka5.9
10Qatar5.9
11Saudi Arabia6.0
12Kuwait8.1
13Malaysia8.3
14Georgia8.6
15Bahrain8.8
16Thailand9.0
17Kazakhstan9.4
18Armenia9.6
19Türkiye9.6
20Brunei9.9
21Oman10.3
22Iran11.3
23Jordan12.9
24Mongolia13.4
25Uzbekistan13.4
26North Korea16.7
27Kyrgyzstan16.8
28Bhutan17.2
29Vietnam17.3
30Lebanon17.6
31Indonesia17.7
32Azerbaijan17.9
33Cambodia18.4
34Syria18.4
35Iraq21.8
36Nepal25.1
37Philippines26.5
38India26.6
39Tajikistan28.1
40Laos29.4
41Bangladesh30.5
42Myanmar36.9
43Palestine37.9
44Yemen38.1
45Turkmenistan39.0
46Timor-Leste47.6
47Afghanistan53.0
48Pakistan56.0
World Bank, WDI · SH.DYN.MORT · 2024 · CC BY 4.0 Source and licence

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