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

The value for Mortality rate, infant (per 1,000 live births) in Colombia was 11.40 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 93.90 in 1960 and a minimum value of 11.40 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 93.90
1961 91.10
1962 88.50
1963 86.00
1964 83.70
1965 81.40
1966 79.20
1967 77.10
1968 74.90
1969 72.70
1970 70.40
1971 68.10
1972 65.70
1973 63.20
1974 60.70
1975 58.10
1976 55.50
1977 52.80
1978 50.20
1979 47.70
1980 45.20
1981 42.80
1982 40.60
1983 38.50
1984 36.70
1985 35.00
1986 33.50
1987 32.20
1988 31.10
1989 30.10
1990 29.20
1991 28.30
1992 27.50
1993 26.60
1994 25.80
1995 24.90
1996 24.10
1997 23.30
1998 22.60
1999 21.80
2000 21.20
2001 20.60
2002 19.90
2003 19.40
2004 18.90
2005 18.30
2006 17.80
2007 17.20
2008 16.70
2009 16.20
2010 15.70
2011 15.20
2012 14.70
2013 14.30
2014 13.80
2015 13.40
2016 12.90
2017 12.50
2018 12.10
2019 11.70
2020 11.40

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 Extrapolations based on outdated surveys may not be reliable for monitoring changes in health status or for comparative analytical work.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