Under-5 mortality in North America

25 countries in North America, 2024. Unit: per 1,000 live births. World ranking →

First in the ranking
4.7 ‰
Turks and Caicos Islands
Median country
12.7 ‰
half above, half below
World
37.4 ‰
World Bank aggregate
Range
4.7 to 52.8
Turks and Caicos Islands - Haiti

How to read it

Across 25 countries in North America, the highest value is in Haiti (52.8 ‰) and the lowest in Turks and Caicos Islands (4.7 ‰).

The median country is at 12.7 ‰: 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
1Turks and Caicos Islands4.7
2Canada5.4
3United States6.5
4Cuba8.6
5Antigua and Barbuda9.1
6Barbados9.8
7El Salvador10.0
8Costa Rica10.4
9Nicaragua11.2
10Saint Vincent and the Grenadines11.3
11Bahamas12.4
12British Virgin Islands12.4
13Belize12.7
14Mexico13.1
15Honduras15.0
16Panama15.3
17Saint Kitts and Nevis15.9
18Saint Lucia17.2
19Jamaica17.8
20Grenada18.0
21Trinidad and Tobago18.8
22Guatemala20.5
23Dominican Republic30.6
24Dominica35.7
25Haiti52.8
World Bank, WDI · SH.DYN.MORT · 2024 · CC BY 4.0 Source and licence

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