Turkey - Child and infant mortality

Number of infant deaths

The value for Number of infant deaths in Turkey was 10,588 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 206,719 in 1960 and a minimum value of 10,588 in 2020.

Definition: Number of infants dying before reaching one year of age.

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 206,719
1961 202,578
1962 198,084
1963 193,545
1964 188,990
1965 185,046
1966 181,554
1967 178,651
1968 176,186
1969 173,840
1970 171,721
1971 169,448
1972 166,992
1973 164,184
1974 160,857
1975 157,079
1976 152,969
1977 148,550
1978 143,956
1979 139,147
1980 134,172
1981 128,849
1982 123,177
1983 117,226
1984 111,083
1985 104,838
1986 98,685
1987 92,766
1988 87,110
1989 81,886
1990 77,089
1991 72,682
1992 68,572
1993 64,763
1994 61,160
1995 57,785
1996 54,537
1997 51,380
1998 48,287
1999 45,243
2000 42,255
2001 39,383
2002 36,576
2003 33,933
2004 31,436
2005 29,157
2006 27,037
2007 25,113
2008 23,311
2009 21,669
2010 20,193
2011 18,863
2012 17,639
2013 16,536
2014 15,530
2015 14,595
2016 13,709
2017 12,875
2018 12,068
2019 11,297
2020 10,588

Number of under-five deaths

The value for Number of under-five deaths in Turkey was 12,369 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 308,737 in 1960 and a minimum value of 12,369 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
1960 308,737
1961 302,636
1962 295,927
1963 289,084
1964 282,163
1965 275,713
1966 269,798
1967 264,741
1968 260,336
1969 256,099
1970 252,277
1971 248,318
1972 244,075
1973 239,210
1974 233,667
1975 227,508
1976 220,883
1977 213,782
1978 206,431
1979 198,769
1980 190,839
1981 182,503
1982 173,769
1983 164,735
1984 155,496
1985 146,186
1986 136,917
1987 127,957
1988 119,359
1989 111,288
1990 103,782
1991 96,794
1992 90,329
1993 84,396
1994 78,912
1995 73,868
1996 69,077
1997 64,539
1998 60,166
1999 55,944
2000 51,869
2001 47,992
2002 44,298
2003 40,845
2004 37,629
2005 34,691
2006 32,006
2007 29,569
2008 27,363
2009 25,359
2010 23,566
2011 21,956
2012 20,510
2013 19,210
2014 18,032
2015 16,944
2016 15,921
2017 14,970
2018 14,053
2019 13,178
2020 12,369

Number of neonatal deaths

The value for Number of neonatal deaths in Turkey was 6,551 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 79,652 in 1972 and a minimum value of 6,551 in 2020.

Definition: Number of neonates dying before reaching 28 days of age.

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.

See also:

Year Value
1960 78,716
1961 78,211
1962 77,610
1963 77,076
1964 76,721
1965 76,575
1966 76,745
1967 77,103
1968 77,753
1969 78,509
1970 79,139
1971 79,548
1972 79,652
1973 79,423
1974 78,569
1975 77,221
1976 75,320
1977 73,127
1978 71,100
1979 69,223
1980 67,404
1981 65,535
1982 63,561
1983 61,360
1984 58,979
1985 56,597
1986 54,402
1987 52,363
1988 50,413
1989 48,344
1990 46,138
1991 43,657
1992 41,011
1993 38,334
1994 35,772
1995 33,408
1996 31,399
1997 29,636
1998 27,969
1999 26,392
2000 24,898
2001 23,246
2002 21,518
2003 19,999
2004 18,592
2005 17,268
2006 15,979
2007 14,778
2008 13,639
2009 12,596
2010 11,663
2011 10,820
2012 10,058
2013 9,397
2014 8,809
2015 8,325
2016 7,933
2017 7,595
2018 7,259
2019 6,909
2020 6,551

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Mortality