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

The value for Mortality rate, infant (per 1,000 live births) in The Bahamas was 10.50 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 52 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 26.70 in 1974 and a minimum value of 10.50 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
1968 24.80
1969 25.30
1970 25.70
1971 26.10
1972 26.50
1973 26.70
1974 26.70
1975 26.60
1976 26.40
1977 26.10
1978 25.80
1979 25.40
1980 25.00
1981 24.60
1982 24.30
1983 24.10
1984 23.90
1985 23.60
1986 23.20
1987 22.60
1988 21.80
1989 20.90
1990 20.00
1991 19.10
1992 18.20
1993 17.30
1994 16.50
1995 15.70
1996 15.10
1997 14.50
1998 14.10
1999 13.90
2000 13.90
2001 14.00
2002 14.10
2003 14.30
2004 14.40
2005 14.40
2006 14.30
2007 14.10
2008 13.90
2009 13.60
2010 13.30
2011 13.00
2012 12.80
2013 12.50
2014 12.20
2015 12.00
2016 11.70
2017 11.40
2018 11.20
2019 14.50
2020 10.50

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 Extrapolations based on outdated surveys may not be reliable for monitoring changes in health status or for comparative analytical work.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