Costa Rica - Mortality rate, infant, male (per 1,000 live births)

The value for Mortality rate, infant, male (per 1,000 live births) in Costa Rica was 7.20 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 79.00 in 1964 and a minimum value of 7.20 in 2020.

Definition: Infant mortality rate, male is the number of male infants dying before reaching one year of age, per 1,000 male 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 73.60
1961 68.70
1962 71.00
1963 76.70
1964 79.00
1965 76.10
1966 71.40
1967 68.40
1968 67.40
1969 67.10
1970 66.20
1971 63.50
1972 58.60
1973 52.40
1974 47.20
1975 42.70
1976 37.80
1977 32.20
1978 27.00
1979 23.20
1980 21.60
1981 21.20
1982 21.60
1983 22.10
1984 22.30
1985 22.00
1986 21.00
1987 19.40
1988 17.40
1989 16.10
1990 15.50
1991 15.30
1992 14.80
1993 14.30
1994 14.00
1995 14.00
1996 14.10
1997 14.00
1998 13.60
1999 13.00
2000 12.30
2001 11.60
2002 11.10
2003 10.90
2004 10.80
2005 10.80
2006 10.70
2007 10.60
2008 10.30
2009 10.10
2010 9.90
2011 9.60
2012 9.30
2013 8.80
2014 8.50
2015 8.20
2016 8.10
2017 8.00
2018 7.90
2019 7.60
2020 7.20

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 Extrapolations based on outdated surveys may not be reliable for monitoring changes in health status or for comparative analytical work.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