UN IGME · Mortality Rate, Ages 5–14
Child mortality at ages 5 to 14 by country
How likely is a child who reaches five to die before fifteen?
Of the 200 countries compared in 2024, San Marino had the lowest reading, 0.3919, and Palestine had the highest reading, 59.0379. In the middle country the figure was 2.8577. Among the 200 countries measured in every edition since 1990, the middle one moved from 6.3393 to 2.8577.
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Child mortality at ages 5 to 14 · 2024
Context statistic
Lowest of 200San Marino
0.3919012024 · position · derived
Who leads
The three countries at the lowest end of 200 compared, the three at the other end, and the first on each continent.
1Photo: Matl derivative work: Jjtkk · CC BY-SA 3.0, greyscale
2Photo: Hansueli Krapf · CC BY-SA 3.0, greyscale
3Photo: Michal Osmenda from Brussels, Belgium · CC BY-SA 2.0, greyscale
Highest in 2024
Palestine59.0379
Niger29.7708
Sierra Leone23.1286
Where a country sits says how it compares with the others measured, and nothing about why.
02Every measured country
Child mortality at ages 5 to 14 on a map
Each country is shaded by its value, in five groups holding the same number of countries. Hover a country for its value, or select it to open its profile. Below the map, each continent’s middle country.
Darker is a lower value — the better end.
- 8.2306–59.0379
- 3.8111–7.6488
- 2.1285–3.7127
- 1.2222–2.0994
- 0.3919–1.1408
- No reading in 2024
- Europe
0.8500
the middle country, of 43 measured · 49 members
San Marino0.3919
Moldova2.1497Lowest and highest reading in Europe.
- Americas
2.5569
the middle country, of 39 measured · 48 members
Canada1.0867
Haiti9.0716Lowest and highest reading in Americas.
- Asia
2.9988
the middle country, of 48 measured · 52 members
Israel0.8132Palestine59.0379Lowest and highest reading in Asia.
- Oceania
4.2621
the middle country, of 16 measured · 21 members
Australia0.8288
Kiribati9.7689Lowest and highest reading in Oceania.
- Africa
9.6067
the middle country, of 54 measured · 55 members
Mauritius1.6826Niger29.7708Lowest and highest reading in Africa.
- Every region
22 sub-regions, lowest middle country first
- Western Europe
0.7436
the middle country, of 8 measured · 9 members
Luxembourg0.5198
Germany0.8804Lowest and highest reading in Western Europe.
- Northern Europe
0.7759
the middle country, of 10 measured · 13 members
Iceland0.4836
Estonia1.1318Lowest and highest reading in Northern Europe.
- Southern Europe
0.8392
the middle country, of 15 measured · 17 members
San Marino0.3919
Kosovo1.9564Lowest and highest reading in Southern Europe.
- Eastern Europe
1.2312
the middle country, of 10 measured · 10 members
Czechia0.8872Moldova2.1497Lowest and highest reading in Eastern Europe.
- Eastern Asia
1.6944
the middle country, of 5 measured · 8 members
Japan0.8284
North Korea3.7127Lowest and highest reading in Eastern Asia.
- Western Asia
1.8810
the middle country, of 18 measured · 19 members
Israel0.8132Palestine59.0379Lowest and highest reading in Western Asia.
- Caribbean
2.3263
the middle country, of 17 measured · 24 members
Turks and Caicos Islands1.2748Haiti9.0716Lowest and highest reading in Caribbean.
- South America
2.7856
the middle country, of 12 measured · 12 members
Chile1.3898
Suriname4.0752Lowest and highest reading in South America.
- Central Asia
2.8750
the middle country, of 5 measured · 5 members
Tajikistan1.8034
Uzbekistan5.7733Lowest and highest reading in Central Asia.
- Northern Africa
2.9260
the middle country, of 6 measured · 6 members
Morocco2.1844
Sudan13.4302Lowest and highest reading in Northern Africa.
- Polynesia
3.0930
the middle country, of 5 measured · 7 members
Tonga1.6955
Niue4.9931Lowest and highest reading in Polynesia.
- Central America
3.0939
the middle country, of 8 measured · 8 members
Costa Rica1.9676
El Salvador4.7249Lowest and highest reading in Central America.
- South-eastern Asia
3.8612
the middle country, of 11 measured · 11 members
Singapore0.8751
Timor-Leste8.9108Lowest and highest reading in South-eastern Asia.
- Southern Asia
4.3556
the middle country, of 9 measured · 9 members
Maldives1.3595
Afghanistan9.2613Lowest and highest reading in Southern Asia.
- Micronesia
4.7710
the middle country, of 5 measured · 7 members
Nauru2.0720Kiribati9.7689Lowest and highest reading in Micronesia.
- Southern Africa
6.7204
the middle country, of 5 measured · 5 members
South Africa5.3669
Eswatini11.5202Lowest and highest reading in Southern Africa.
- Eastern Africa
9.2835
the middle country, of 18 measured · 19 members
Mauritius1.6826
Somalia22.4747Lowest and highest reading in Eastern Africa.
- Western Africa
13.4225
the middle country, of 16 measured · 16 members
Cabo Verde1.8572Niger29.7708Lowest and highest reading in Western Africa.
- Middle Africa
13.7605
the middle country, of 9 measured · 9 members
São Tomé and Príncipe2.9136
Central African Republic21.4152Lowest and highest reading in Middle Africa.
- Australia and New Zealand
2 of 2 measured — too few for a middle: Australia, New Zealand.
Australia0.8288
New Zealand0.9947Lowest and highest reading in Australia and New Zealand.
- Melanesia
4 of 5 measured — too few for a middle: Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu.
Vanuatu3.8111
Papua New Guinea7.6191Lowest and highest reading in Melanesia.
- Northern America
2 of 4 measured — too few for a middle: Canada, United States.
Canada1.0867
United States1.4865Lowest and highest reading in Northern America.
03The whole field at once
The spread
200 countries, one dot each, on one scale — further right is a higher value. Half the countries are above 2.8577; a quarter are above 5.7812, and a quarter below 1.4688. The bar in each row marks that continent’s middle country.
04All 200 ever measured
Every country
In order, highest value first — position 1 is the highest value, the way UN IGME’s own tables read. “=” marks a position shared with another country. UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME) ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. The rate is per thousand children who reached five, not per birth, so it is not on the same scale as the under-five or infant rates. IGME's estimates include deaths in conflict and disaster: where a war kills children, as in Gaza from 2023, the rate can rise many times over in a single year.
Showing 25 of 200 countries
Values for 2024. The change column compares 2024 with 2023 only; the sparkline covers the recent editions.
051990–2024 · 35 reference years
Over time
Each point is one year from 1990, re-estimated in full at each IGME release, with published uncertainty bounds.
- the middle country
- the middle half of countries
- the middle of the 200 countries measured every time
- each continent’s middle country
The same, year by year
| Year | Countries | Middle country | Middle half | Measured every time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 200 | 2.8577 | 1.4688 – 5.7812 | 2.8577 |
| 2023 | 200 | 3.0108 | 1.4669 – 6.0231 | 3.0108 |
| 2022 | 200 | 2.9294 | 1.5221 – 5.6981 | 2.9294 |
| 2021 | 200 | 2.9621 | 1.5275 – 6.0200 | 2.9621 |
| 2020 | 200 | 3.1007 | 1.5593 – 6.2004 | 3.1007 |
| 2019 | 200 | 3.1891 | 1.6039 – 6.7352 | 3.1891 |
| 2018 | 200 | 3.0645 | 1.6478 – 6.9812 | 3.0645 |
| 2017 | 200 | 3.2064 | 1.7291 – 7.2497 | 3.2064 |
| 2016 | 200 | 3.2459 | 1.7784 – 7.5300 | 3.2459 |
| 2015 | 200 | 3.2574 | 1.8318 – 8.0072 | 3.2574 |
| 2014 | 200 | 3.2179 | 1.8817 – 8.2922 | 3.2179 |
| 2013 | 200 | 3.2311 | 1.9219 – 8.5360 | 3.2311 |
| 2012 | 200 | 3.3441 | 1.9836 – 8.7845 | 3.3441 |
| 2011 | 200 | 3.5526 | 2.0694 – 9.0065 | 3.5526 |
| 2010 | 200 | 3.5786 | 2.0790 – 9.5466 | 3.5786 |
| 2009 | 200 | 3.7345 | 2.1535 – 10.1844 | 3.7345 |
| 2008 | 200 | 3.6991 | 2.2212 – 10.5129 | 3.6991 |
| 2007 | 200 | 3.7914 | 2.2816 – 10.7664 | 3.7914 |
| 2006 | 200 | 3.9081 | 2.3373 – 11.2564 | 3.9081 |
| 2005 | 200 | 4.0212 | 2.3682 – 11.7512 | 4.0212 |
| 2004 | 200 | 4.1618 | 2.4255 – 12.4843 | 4.1618 |
| 2003 | 200 | 4.2283 | 2.5036 – 12.2525 | 4.2283 |
| 2002 | 200 | 4.3397 | 2.5436 – 12.7613 | 4.3397 |
| 2001 | 200 | 4.5435 | 2.6363 – 13.1104 | 4.5435 |
| 2000 | 200 | 4.6061 | 2.6575 – 13.5756 | 4.6061 |
| 1999 | 200 | 4.7896 | 2.6891 – 13.7756 | 4.7896 |
| 1998 | 200 | 5.0448 | 2.7916 – 15.1240 | 5.0448 |
| 1997 | 200 | 5.2330 | 2.9334 – 15.0064 | 5.2330 |
| 1996 | 200 | 5.3083 | 2.9991 – 14.6387 | 5.3083 |
| 1995 | 200 | 5.5862 | 3.1107 – 14.9125 | 5.5862 |
| 1994 | 200 | 5.5749 | 3.1634 – 15.0939 | 5.5749 |
| 1993 | 200 | 5.7703 | 3.2576 – 15.9145 | 5.7703 |
| 1992 | 200 | 6.1238 | 3.3239 – 16.5015 | 6.1238 |
| 1991 | 200 | 6.1652 | 3.4294 – 16.5299 | 6.1652 |
| 1990 | 200 | 6.3393 | 3.4630 – 17.0333 | 6.3393 |
062023 → 2024
Who rose and fell
The biggest changes in value between the two newest editions — reference years recalculated in one report, not two separate publications. Places are shown second, because they also move when other countries do.
Improved most
before → afterWorsened most
before → after
Lebanon3.8933 → 6.1090 · 82nd → 48th+2.2157
Comoros5.4298 → 6.3186 · 56th → 47th+0.8888- Uzbekistan5.0568 → 5.7733 · 59th → 51st+0.7164
Bosnia and Herzegovina1.1607 → 1.7166 · 162nd → 137th+0.5559
Croatia1.6025 → 1.9356 · 144th → 130th+0.3331
200 countries were measured in both 2023 and 2024.
07Across every edition
Child mortality at ages 5 to 14 in records
The extremes of the statistic. A record reached by more than one country names none of them.
Highest reading on record
340.1013
Deaths between ages 5 and 14 (per 1,000 children aged 5)
Lowest reading on record
0.3919
Deaths between ages 5 and 14 (per 1,000 children aged 5)
Biggest improvement between editions
−245.3391
340.1013 → 94.7622
Biggest decline between editions
+254.3715
85.7298 → 340.1013
Most improved since first measured
−136.3635
157.9292 → 21.5657
At the top most often
23 of 35
editions, alone at the first-listed end
08The measure
About child mortality at ages 5 to 14
This is the chance that a child who has reached five dies before fifteen, out of every thousand. Deaths at these ages are far rarer than in early childhood — injuries, drowning, infectious disease and, where it strikes, war — and this measure picks up where under-five mortality stops.
What the number is: Deaths between ages 5 and 14 (per 1,000 children aged 5).
09Where it fits
Connections
Its part in the Country Index, the statistics whose values line up most closely with it across countries, and others on the same subject.
In the Country Index
Context, with no vote
This statistic is published in full under Health & Wellbeing and Development & Human Capital, but does not help decide any Country Index standing.
Health & WellbeingDevelopment & Human CapitalWhich statistics vote, and why
Moves with
Where child mortality at ages 5 to 14 is higher, these tend to be higher too.
- Under-Five Mortality RateKeyUN IGME · 200 countries in commonρ 0.95
- Infant Mortality RateUN IGME · 200 countries in commonρ 0.94
- Stillbirth RateUN IGME · 200 countries in commonρ 0.91
Moves against
Where child mortality at ages 5 to 14 is higher, these tend to be lower.
- Inequality-adjusted Human Development IndexUNDP Human Development Report Office · 168 countries in commonρ −0.93
- Human Development IndexKeyUNDP Human Development Report Office · 191 countries in commonρ −0.91
- Human Capital IndexWorld Bank Group · 170 countries in commonρ −0.91
Rank correlation (ρ, from −1 to 1) across countries, on each statistic’s newest edition, out of 382 statistics sharing at least 80 countries with this one. Two statistics that move together do not cause each other.
10Keep reading
Explore further
The countries at either end
11Questions
Child mortality at ages 5 to 14: questions and answers
Which country has the lowest child mortality at ages 5 to 14?
San Marino, at 0.3919, among the 200 countries compared in 2024.
Which country has the highest child mortality at ages 5 to 14?
Palestine, at 59.0379, among the 200 countries compared in 2024.
How many countries does the Mortality Rate, Ages 5–14 cover?
200 in 2024.
What is the world average child mortality at ages 5 to 14?
This site does not calculate a world average, which would depend on how countries are weighted. In the middle country of the 200 compared in 2024, the figure was 2.8577.
Is this UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME)’s own ranking?
No. UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME) publishes the values but ranks nobody; the position on this page is derived by Nations Inquiry by ordering the published values, and equal values share a position.
How often is the Mortality Rate, Ages 5–14 published?
This site holds 35 reference years, 1990–2024, all recalculated in UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME)’s 2025 report on one method — not 35 separate publications.
Where does the data come from, and can I download it?
From UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME), under CC BY 3.0 IGO. From the UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation, read out of UNICEF’s own SDMX warehouse (CME_MRY5T14), the same route as the child mortality rates beside it. Every edition is on this site’s Datasets pages as a full table, and downloads as a CSV file with every value unrounded.
12Method
Sources, method and citation
Source
Mortality Rate, Ages 5–14 — UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME)
From the UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation, read out of UNICEF’s own SDMX warehouse (CME_MRY5T14), the same route as the child mortality rates beside it.
Newest edition
Report year 2024Data year 2024
Cite the source as: UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation. Levels and Trends in Child Mortality. New York: UNICEF.
Licence: CC BY 3.0 IGO, checked 2026-09-29.
How this page reads the numbers
- UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME) ranks nobody on this measure. The position is derived by Nations Inquiry by ordering the published values; equal values share a position.
- Which end is better follows the publisher’s own reading of the measure.
- A country is named at an end only when it holds that value alone. Where several share it, the page says how many and names none first.
- Values are stored exactly as published and trimmed only for display. “The middle country” is the median of the countries measured, not a world average.
The file itself, column by column — where it came from, what each column holds, and every edition as a CSV — is on its dataset page.
Photographs
The countries at the top of this statistic, from their profiles: Wikimedia Commons, shown in greyscale, each used under the licence named.
- San Marino — Matl derivative work: Jjtkk, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Iceland — Hansueli Krapf, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Luxembourg — Michal Osmenda from Brussels, Belgium, CC BY-SA 2.0
Cite this page
Nations Inquiry (2026). Child mortality at ages 5 to 14 by country: Mortality Rate, Ages 5–14, data from UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME). https://nationsinquiry.com/statistics/mortality-5-to-14