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Algeria |
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Angola |
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Benin |
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Botswana |
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Burkina Faso |
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Burundi |
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Cameroon |
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Cape Verde |
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Central African Republic |
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Chad |
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Comoros |
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Congo |
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Côte d’Ivoire |
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Djibouti |
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DRC |
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Egypt |
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Equatorial Guinea |
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Eritrea |
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Eswatini |
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Ethiopia |
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Gabon |
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Gambia |
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Ghana |
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Guinea |
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Guinea-Bissau |
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Kenya |
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Lesotho |
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Liberia |
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Libya |
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Madagascar |
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Malawi |
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Mali |
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Mauritania |
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Mauritius |
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Morocco |
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Mozambique |
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Namibia |
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Niger |
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Nigeria |
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Rwanda |
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SADR |
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São Tomé and Príncipe |
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Senegal |
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Seychelles |
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Sierra Leone |
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Somalia |
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South Africa |
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South Sudan |
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Sudan |
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Tanzania |
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Togo |
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Tunisia |
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Uganda |
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Zambia |
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Zimbabwe |
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Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health |
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Life expectancy at birth |
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Maternal mortality ratio |
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Stillbirth rate |
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Neonatal mortality rate |
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Infant mortality rate |
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Under 5 mortality rate |
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Antenatal care coverage: 4+ visits |
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Antenatal care coverage: 8+ visits |
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Births attended by skilled health personnel |
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Postpartum care coverage for mothers |
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Postnatal care coverage for newborns |
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Exclusive breastfeeding for infants under 6 months |
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Coverage of first dose of measles vaccination |
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Stunting - short height for age under age 5 |
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Wasting – low weight for height under age 5 |
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Overweight - heavy for height under 5 |
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Sexual and Reproductive Health |
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Child marriage before age 15 |
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Child marriage before age 18 |
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Female genital mutilation |
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Sexual violence by age 18 - female |
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Sexual violence by age 18 - male |
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Very early child bearing under age 16 |
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Adolescent birth rate ages 15 to 19 |
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Contraceptive prevalance rate, modern methods, all women |
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Demand satisfied for modern contraception |
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Communicable Diseases |
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New HIV infections |
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Antiretroviral treatment coverage |
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Preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV |
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Condom use |
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New TB infections |
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New malaria infections |
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Non-Communicable Diseases |
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Mortality from non-communicable diseases |
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Suicide mortality rate |
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Current tobacco use among females aged 15 and over |
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Current tobacco use among males aged 15 and over |
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Harmful alcohol use aged 15 and over |
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Health Financing |
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External health expenditure as % current health expenditure |
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Government health expenditure as % current health expenditure |
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Government health expenditure as % GDP |
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Government health expenditure as % general govt expenditure |
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Government health expenditure per capita |
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Out-of-pocket health expenditure as % of current health expenditure |
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Percentage of national health budget allocated for reproductive health |
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Health systems and policies |
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Density of health workers - physicians |
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Density of health workers - nurses and midwives |
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Density of health workers - pharmaceutical staff |
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Qualified obstetricians |
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Birth registration |
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At least basic drinking water |
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At least basic sanitation services |
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Open defecation |
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Implementation of AMRH Initiative |
| Full Name: | Infant mortality rate |
| Full Unit: | per 1,000 live births |
| Year-range of Data: | 2017 |
| Source: | UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation |
| Link to Source: | https://data.unicef.org/topic/child-survival/neonatal-mortality/ |
| Date Source Published: | 18th September 2018 |
| Date Source Accessed: | 21st January 2019 |
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The following countries had no data: |
The infant mortality rate is the probability that a child will die between the time of birth and exactly one year of age in a specific year or period; it is expressed per every 1,000 live births in that same year or period. A live birth refers to any baby that shows signs of life at birth.
Infant mortality rate is a general indicator of child health. Rather than being an indicator that looks specifically at health care delivery, it is an indicator of the socio-economic, environmental and nutritional status of children.
If a country has a full birth and death registration system, then calculating infant mortality rate is simple as all births and deaths are recorded. Where registration systems are incomplete, information on the birth and death of infants are obtained from household surveys where women are asked about every baby they have given birth to and how long the child survived. The indicator can also be calculated from summary birth histories of women obtained through population censuses.
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More about indicator and sources
Data are available for all countries from 1990 – 2017 as shown on this AHStats platform. However, empirical data are available for earlier years in a country, UN IGME estimates are also available for earlier years. For more information, see the UN Child Mortality Estimates website: http://www.childmortality.org/
More information on calculations
In most African countries, registration is improving but is often incomplete. In these cases, other sources are used such as national surveys from a representative sample of households (e.g. the -supported Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys and the US Agency for International Development–supported Demographic and Health Surveys) or population censuses. To calculate the mortality estimate, the data from these sources are fitted to a regression line using a particular model generated by the United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation.
For more information, see “Notes on the Data”: https://data.unicef.org/topic/child-survival/under-five-mortality/
