Health · China
Yearly data from 1969 to 2024, from the World Bank.
China's mortality rate, under-5, male (per 1,000 live births) was 6 in 2024, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is down 50.82% from 12.2 in 2014 (6.85% a year on average, compounded).
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 6 | 2024 |
| Five years earlier | 8.5 | 2019 |
| Ten years earlier | 12.2 | 2014 |
| Highest | 121.2 | 1969 |
| Lowest | 6 | 2024 |
| Average since 2015 | 8.38 | 2015–2024 |
| First recorded | 121.2 | 1969 |
Over five years it is down 29.41% from 8.5 in 2019 (6.73% a year on average, compounded). Since 1969 it is down 95.05% from 121.2 in 1969 (5.32% a year on average, compounded).
In 2024, China's mortality rate, under-5, male (per 1,000 live births) fell 0.4 on 2023 (from 6.4 to 6).
Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1994 to 2023), the average change was −1.56 and a typical year strayed about 0.77 from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 1.5 standard deviations above that average, so it was larger than a typical year, though not out of the range seen before.
On record, the biggest yearly rise was 0.1 in 1988 and the biggest yearly fall was 6.1 in 1970. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.
From 2015 to 2024 the straight-line trend is downward, about 0.59 a year. A straight line explains 99% of the movement over 10 observed years.
Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.
In 2024, China had the 150th highest value of the 196 economies reporting that year. Higher is not always better: for some indicators the lowest value is the one to aim for. See the full ranking.
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| China | 6 | 2024 |
| World | 39.7 | 2024 |
| East Asia & Pacific | 14.4 | 2024 |
| Upper middle income | 14.2 | 2024 |
Under-five mortality rate, male is the probability per 1,000 that a newborn male baby will die before reaching age five, if subject to male age-specific mortality rates of the specified year.
Limitations: Complete vital registration systems are fairly uncommon in developing countries. Thus estimates must be obtained from sample surveys or derived by applying indirect estimation techniques to registration, census, or survey data. Survey data are subject to recall error, and surveys estimating infant/child deaths require large samples because households in which a birth has occurred during a given year cannot ordinarily be preselected for sampling. Indirect estimates rely on model life tables that may be inappropriate for the population concerned. Extrapolations based on outdated surveys may not be reliable for monitoring changes in health status or for comparative analytical work.
Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.
| Year | Mortality rate, under-5, male (per 1,000 live births) |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 6 |
| 2023 | 6.4 |
| 2022 | 6.9 |
| 2021 | 7.4 |
| 2020 | 7.9 |
| 2019 | 8.5 |
| 2018 | 9.1 |
| 2017 | 9.8 |
| 2016 | 10.5 |
| 2015 | 11.3 |
| 2014 | 12.2 |
| 2013 | 13.2 |
| 2012 | 14.3 |
| 2011 | 15.4 |
| 2010 | 16.7 |
| 2009 | 18.1 |
| 2008 | 19.6 |
| 2007 | 21.3 |
| 2006 | 23.3 |
| 2005 | 25.4 |
| 2004 | 27.8 |
| 2003 | 30.4 |
| 2002 | 33.1 |
| 2001 | 35.9 |
| 2000 | 38.5 |
| 1999 | 41.1 |
| 1998 | 43.4 |
| 1997 | 45.6 |
| 1996 | 47.7 |
| 1995 | 49.7 |
| 1994 | 51.6 |
| 1993 | 53.1 |
| 1992 | 54.5 |
| 1991 | 55.4 |
| 1990 | 56 |
| 1989 | 56.2 |
| 1988 | 56.3 |
| 1987 | 56.2 |
| 1986 | 56.2 |
| 1985 | 56.5 |
| 1984 | 57.3 |
| 1983 | 58.5 |
| 1982 | 60.2 |
| 1981 | 62.3 |
| 1980 | 65.1 |
| 1979 | 68.6 |
| 1978 | 72.5 |
| 1977 | 77 |
| 1976 | 82 |
| 1975 | 87.3 |
| 1974 | 92.7 |
| 1973 | 98.2 |
| 1972 | 103.7 |
| 1971 | 109.4 |
| 1970 | 115.1 |
| 1969 | 121.2 |
Every indicator for China is on the China data page.
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator SH.DYN.MORT.MA, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation, UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), uri: www.childmortality.org; World Health Organization (WHO), uri: www.childmortality.org, note: UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation; World Bank (WB), uri: www.childmortality.org, note: UN Inter-agenc… Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.
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