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

The value for Mortality rate, infant (per 1,000 live births) in Namibia was 30.10 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 53 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 65.90 in 1979 and a minimum value of 30.10 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
1967 62.10
1968 62.20
1969 62.40
1970 62.60
1971 62.80
1972 63.10
1973 63.40
1974 63.90
1975 64.40
1976 65.00
1977 65.50
1978 65.80
1979 65.90
1980 65.50
1981 64.70
1982 63.40
1983 61.70
1984 59.70
1985 57.60
1986 55.40
1987 53.50
1988 51.80
1989 50.30
1990 49.00
1991 48.00
1992 47.10
1993 46.70
1994 46.60
1995 46.70
1996 46.80
1997 46.80
1998 46.40
1999 45.80
2000 45.00
2001 44.20
2002 43.60
2003 43.30
2004 42.70
2005 39.40
2006 37.30
2007 37.60
2008 37.50
2009 38.50
2010 36.80
2011 36.90
2012 37.90
2013 35.80
2014 34.00
2015 33.30
2016 32.80
2017 32.20
2018 31.70
2019 30.90
2020 30.10

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 Extrapolations based on outdated surveys may not be reliable for monitoring changes in health status or for comparative analytical work.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