Under-5 mortality in Oceania

14 countries in Oceania, 2024. Unit: per 1,000 live births. World ranking →

First in the ranking
3.6 ‰
Australia
Median country
19.6 ‰
half above, half below
World
37.4 ‰
World Bank aggregate
Range
3.6 to 53.1
Australia - Kiribati

How to read it

Across 14 countries in Oceania, the highest value is in Kiribati (53.1 ‰) and the lowest in Australia (3.6 ‰).

The median country is at 19.6 ‰: 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
1Australia3.6
2New Zealand4.7
3Nauru8.3
4Tonga9.5
5Samoa14.9
6Vanuatu17.1
7Tuvalu19.2
8Solomon Islands20.0
9Palau21.4
10Federated States of Micronesia22.4
11Marshall Islands26.7
12Fiji29.1
13Papua New Guinea39.4
14Kiribati53.1
World Bank, WDI · SH.DYN.MORT · 2024 · CC BY 4.0 Source and licence

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