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

The value for Mortality rate, infant (per 1,000 live births) in Jamaica was 11.40 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 61.10 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 61.10
1961 58.90
1962 56.90
1963 55.00
1964 53.30
1965 51.70
1966 50.20
1967 48.70
1968 47.30
1969 45.80
1970 44.40
1971 43.10
1972 41.70
1973 40.40
1974 39.20
1975 38.00
1976 36.90
1977 35.90
1978 35.00
1979 34.00
1980 33.10
1981 32.30
1982 31.40
1983 30.60
1984 29.80
1985 29.00
1986 28.30
1987 27.50
1988 26.70
1989 26.00
1990 25.30
1991 24.60
1992 23.90
1993 23.20
1994 22.50
1995 21.90
1996 21.20
1997 20.60
1998 20.00
1999 19.50
2000 18.90
2001 18.40
2002 18.00
2003 17.60
2004 17.30
2005 17.00
2006 16.70
2007 16.50
2008 16.20
2009 15.80
2010 15.40
2011 15.10
2012 14.60
2013 14.20
2014 13.80
2015 13.40
2016 13.00
2017 12.60
2018 12.20
2019 11.80
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 Extrapolations based on outdated surveys may not be reliable for monitoring changes in health status or for comparative analytical work.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