South Asia - Number of under-five deaths

The value for Number of under-five deaths in South Asia was 1,345,035 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 30 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 4,755,494 in 1990 and a minimum value of 1,345,035 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
1990 4,755,494
1991 4,642,416
1992 4,529,256
1993 4,415,845
1994 4,301,819
1995 4,183,448
1996 4,061,275
1997 3,935,731
1998 3,806,572
1999 3,675,401
2000 3,543,552
2001 3,412,629
2002 3,283,307
2003 3,157,964
2004 3,038,810
2005 2,910,822
2006 2,786,584
2007 2,660,008
2008 2,531,938
2009 2,406,455
2010 2,274,844
2011 2,150,716
2012 2,030,825
2013 1,919,196
2014 1,815,650
2015 1,719,855
2016 1,631,893
2017 1,550,738
2018 1,475,475
2019 1,407,603
2020 1,345,035

Aggregation method: Sum

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Mortality