India - Number of under-five deaths

The value for Number of under-five deaths in India was 783,314 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 4,482,479 in 1970 and a minimum value of 783,314 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 4,421,984
1961 4,423,671
1962 4,426,296
1963 4,430,493
1964 4,436,738
1965 4,443,357
1966 4,449,787
1967 4,458,961
1968 4,468,498
1969 4,476,462
1970 4,482,479
1971 4,481,044
1972 4,474,139
1973 4,458,334
1974 4,431,721
1975 4,393,096
1976 4,345,320
1977 4,289,129
1978 4,228,515
1979 4,165,858
1980 4,104,186
1981 4,046,077
1982 3,991,127
1983 3,939,449
1984 3,886,229
1985 3,826,388
1986 3,758,271
1987 3,681,880
1988 3,596,990
1989 3,507,760
1990 3,418,076
1991 3,331,575
1992 3,246,480
1993 3,162,651
1994 3,079,675
1995 2,993,896
1996 2,905,674
1997 2,815,167
1998 2,721,709
1999 2,626,113
2000 2,529,252
2001 2,431,923
2002 2,334,769
2003 2,239,666
2004 2,143,841
2005 2,047,439
2006 1,948,338
2007 1,845,726
2008 1,740,382
2009 1,633,079
2010 1,525,847
2011 1,421,875
2012 1,321,592
2013 1,228,875
2014 1,143,835
2015 1,066,397
2016 996,481
2017 933,146
2018 876,076
2019 826,837
2020 783,314

Aggregation method: Sum

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Mortality