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

The value for Mortality rate, infant (per 1,000 live births) in Paraguay was 16.20 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 60.70 in 1960 and a minimum value of 16.20 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 60.70
1961 60.20
1962 59.90
1963 59.50
1964 59.30
1965 59.10
1966 58.90
1967 58.70
1968 58.40
1969 58.10
1970 57.80
1971 57.40
1972 56.80
1973 56.20
1974 55.60
1975 54.80
1976 53.90
1977 53.00
1978 51.90
1979 50.80
1980 49.60
1981 48.40
1982 47.00
1983 45.60
1984 44.20
1985 42.80
1986 41.40
1987 40.10
1988 38.80
1989 37.60
1990 36.40
1991 35.20
1992 34.10
1993 33.10
1994 32.10
1995 31.30
1996 30.50
1997 29.80
1998 29.10
1999 28.50
2000 27.90
2001 27.40
2002 26.80
2003 26.20
2004 25.60
2005 25.00
2006 24.50
2007 23.90
2008 23.20
2009 22.60
2010 22.00
2011 21.40
2012 20.80
2013 20.20
2014 19.60
2015 19.00
2016 18.40
2017 17.80
2018 17.20
2019 16.70
2020 16.20

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 Extrapolations based on outdated surveys may not be reliable for monitoring changes in health status or for comparative analytical work.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