France - Child and infant mortality

Number of infant deaths

The value for Number of infant deaths in France was 2,485 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 19,610 in 1960 and a minimum value of 2,418 in 2013.

Definition: Number of infants dying before reaching one year of age.

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 19,610
1961 18,807
1962 18,116
1963 17,430
1964 16,713
1965 16,005
1966 15,359
1967 14,757
1968 14,151
1969 13,509
1970 12,823
1971 12,098
1972 11,377
1973 10,732
1974 10,180
1975 9,657
1976 9,124
1977 8,609
1978 8,162
1979 7,804
1980 7,528
1981 7,311
1982 7,126
1983 6,945
1984 6,760
1985 6,575
1986 6,400
1987 6,231
1988 6,053
1989 5,853
1990 5,609
1991 5,306
1992 4,955
1993 4,577
1994 4,199
1995 3,867
1996 3,609
1997 3,419
1998 3,280
1999 3,173
2000 3,076
2001 2,972
2002 2,865
2003 2,763
2004 2,676
2005 2,612
2006 2,574
2007 2,555
2008 2,536
2009 2,510
2010 2,479
2011 2,451
2012 2,429
2013 2,418
2014 2,418
2015 2,424
2016 2,435
2017 2,449
2018 2,465
2019 2,478
2020 2,485

Number of under-five deaths

The value for Number of under-five deaths in France was 3,164 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 23,535 in 1960 and a minimum value of 3,164 in 2020.

Definition: Number of children dying before reaching age five.

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 23,535
1961 22,546
1962 21,702
1963 20,876
1964 20,024
1965 19,196
1966 18,447
1967 17,754
1968 17,057
1969 16,322
1970 15,537
1971 14,708
1972 13,884
1973 13,141
1974 12,495
1975 11,876
1976 11,235
1977 10,602
1978 10,041
1979 9,582
1980 9,217
1981 8,925
1982 8,676
1983 8,441
1984 8,204
1985 7,972
1986 7,754
1987 7,542
1988 7,319
1989 7,069
1990 6,770
1991 6,409
1992 5,996
1993 5,558
1994 5,127
1995 4,756
1996 4,478
1997 4,290
1998 4,170
1999 4,097
2000 4,039
2001 3,967
2002 3,878
2003 3,781
2004 3,685
2005 3,603
2006 3,545
2007 3,504
2008 3,461
2009 3,409
2010 3,352
2011 3,299
2012 3,254
2013 3,223
2014 3,206
2015 3,194
2016 3,188
2017 3,183
2018 3,181
2019 3,175
2020 3,164

Number of neonatal deaths

The value for Number of neonatal deaths in France was 1,840 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 14,788 in 1961 and a minimum value of 1,812 in 2013.

Definition: Number of neonates dying before reaching 28 days of age.

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
1961 14,788
1962 13,965
1963 13,666
1964 13,986
1965 14,004
1966 13,117
1967 11,558
1968 9,965
1969 8,816
1970 8,023
1971 7,429
1972 6,988
1973 6,718
1974 6,561
1975 6,365
1976 6,013
1977 5,547
1978 5,061
1979 4,624
1980 4,285
1981 4,074
1982 3,944
1983 3,825
1984 3,679
1985 3,521
1986 3,358
1987 3,201
1988 3,043
1989 2,881
1990 2,710
1991 2,532
1992 2,377
1993 2,287
1994 2,262
1995 2,259
1996 2,244
1997 2,213
1998 2,167
1999 2,116
2000 2,078
2001 2,070
2002 2,070
2003 2,041
2004 1,973
2005 1,908
2006 1,881
2007 1,884
2008 1,888
2009 1,876
2010 1,853
2011 1,831
2012 1,814
2013 1,812
2014 1,824
2015 1,846
2016 1,870
2017 1,887
2018 1,888
2019 1,869
2020 1,840

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Mortality