Brazil - Mortality rate, infant (per 1,000 live births)

The value for Mortality rate, infant (per 1,000 live births) in Brazil was 13.10 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 127.80 in 1960 and a minimum value of 13.10 in 2020.

Definition: Infant mortality rate is the number of infants dying before reaching one year of age, per 1,000 live births in a given year.

Source: Estimates developed by the UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UNICEF, WHO, World Bank, UN DESA Population Division) at www.childmortality.org.

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Year Value
1960 127.80
1961 124.60
1962 121.50
1963 118.60
1964 115.90
1965 113.50
1966 111.20
1967 109.00
1968 106.90
1969 104.60
1970 102.30
1971 99.90
1972 97.50
1973 95.10
1974 92.80
1975 90.40
1976 87.90
1977 85.30
1978 82.60
1979 79.70
1980 76.60
1981 73.50
1982 70.50
1983 67.70
1984 65.20
1985 62.80
1986 60.60
1987 58.60
1988 56.60
1989 54.60
1990 52.60
1991 50.60
1992 48.40
1993 46.00
1994 43.50
1995 41.10
1996 38.70
1997 36.50
1998 34.30
1999 32.30
2000 30.40
2001 28.50
2002 26.80
2003 25.10
2004 23.50
2005 22.00
2006 20.70
2007 19.50
2008 18.40
2009 17.50
2010 16.70
2011 16.00
2012 15.40
2013 14.90
2014 14.60
2015 14.20
2016 15.00
2017 13.80
2018 13.60
2019 13.30
2020 13.10

Development Relevance: Mortality rates for different age groups (infants, children, and adults) and overall mortality indicators (life expectancy at birth or survival to a given age) are important indicators of health status in a country. Because data on the incidence and prevalence of diseases are frequently unavailable, mortality rates are often used to identify vulnerable populations. And they are among the indicators most frequently used to compare socioeconomic development across countries.

Limitations and Exceptions: 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 Extrapolations based on outdated surveys may not be reliable for monitoring changes in health status or for comparative analytical work.

Statistical Concept and Methodology: The main sources of mortality data are vital registration systems and direct or indirect estimates based on sample surveys or censuses. A "complete" vital registration system - covering at least 90 percent of vital events in the population - is the best source of age-specific mortality data. Estimates of neonatal, infant, and child mortality tend to vary by source and method for a given time and place. Years for available estimates also vary by country, making comparisons across countries and over time difficult. To make neonatal, infant, and child mortality estimates comparable and to ensure consistency across estimates by different agencies, the United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME), which comprises the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the World Health Organization (WHO), the World Bank, the United Nations Population Division, and other universities and research institutes, developed and adopted a statistical method that uses all available information to reconcile differences. The method uses statistical models to obtain a best estimate trend line by fitting a country-specific regression model of mortality rates against their reference dates.

Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual

General Comments: Given that data on the incidence and prevalence of diseases are frequently unavailable, mortality rates are often used to identify vulnerable populations. Moreover, they are among the indicators most frequently used to compare socioeconomic development ac

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Mortality