Under-5 mortality rate (per 1,000 live births)
Mortality rate of children under age 5 per 1,000 live births - the probability that a newborn dies before reaching age five, for the 8-country panel (USA, Canada, UK, Germany, France, Japan, China, India). The World Bank publishes the indicator in the World Development Indicators from estimates developed by the UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UNICEF, WHO, World Bank, UN DESA Population Division); it is a headline indicator for SDG target 3.2. It pairs with the connector's health-expenditure dataset added alongside it: health-spending input against child-mortality outcomes - note the USA's rate runs several times higher than Japan's despite outspending it. The 8-country panel is covered 2000-2024 in the live vintage with no upstream gaps observed - values are null where estimates are unavailable and are never interpolated. Units: deaths per 1,000 live births.
- Source
- World Bank
- Rows
- 208
- Columns
- 4
- Source cadence
- Yearly
- Last refreshed
- Sep 24, 2026
- Theme
- health
| Column | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| country_code | string | ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code (World Bank API field countryiso3code). |
| country_name | string | Country name as published by the World Bank API. |
| year | integer | Calendar year of the observation (World Bank API field date). |
| value | float | Indicator value for the country and year, as defined by the World Bank indicator (see the dataset description). Missing values are null. (unit: deaths per 1,000 live births) |
First 10 sample rows — a preview, not the complete dataset.
| country_code | country_name | year | value |
|---|---|---|---|
| CAN | Canada | 2,000 | 6.2 |
| CAN | Canada | 2,001 | 6.2 |
| CAN | Canada | 2,002 | 6.2 |
| CAN | Canada | 2,003 | 6.2 |
| CAN | Canada | 2,004 | 6.1 |
| CAN | Canada | 2,005 | 6.1 |
| CAN | Canada | 2,006 | 6 |
| CAN | Canada | 2,007 | 6 |
| CAN | Canada | 2,008 | 5.9 |
| CAN | Canada | 2,009 | 5.8 |
Profiled Sep 24, 2026 from snapshot 20260924T161304Z-2a9962b0c55d
Measured- Completeness
- 99%
- Rows
- 208
- Columns
- 4
- Columns with gaps
- 1
| Column | Missing | Distinct | Range | Distribution |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| country_codevarchar | 0% | 7 | — |
|
| country_namevarchar | 0% | 9 | — |
|
| yearbigint | 0% | 27 | 2,000 → 2,025median 2,013 | |
| valuedouble | 3.8% | 110 | 2.4 → 91.8median 5.4 | 2 outside 1st–99th percentile |
- Current
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208 rows · first snapshot
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curl "https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/world_bank/under_5_mortality_rate" | jq '{title, rows, columns_count, license}'import requests
ds = requests.get("https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/world_bank/under_5_mortality_rate").json()
print(ds["title"], ds["rows"], "rows")
# Sample rows for an LLM context window
for row in ds.get("sample_rows", [])[:5]:
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World Bank. (2026). Under-5 mortality rate (per 1,000 live births) [Data set, snapshot 20260924T161304Z-2a9962b0c55d, sha256 2a9962b0c55d]. Datazimuts. Retrieved 2026-09-24, from https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/world_bank/under_5_mortality_rate?snapshot=20260924T161304Z-2a9962b0c55d
@misc{dz_world_bank_under_5_mortality_rate_2a9962b0,
title = {{Under-5 mortality rate (per 1,000 live births)}},
author = {{World Bank}},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Datazimuts},
howpublished = {\url{https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/world_bank/under_5_mortality_rate?snapshot=20260924T161304Z-2a9962b0c55d}},
note = {Snapshot 20260924T161304Z-2a9962b0c55d, sha256 2a9962b0c55d527bde6435387abfa9d057b8f2406eb6d953083f1a8110781268; accessed 2026-09-24}
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