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

The value for Mortality rate, infant (per 1,000 live births) in Turkey was 8.10 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 171.40 in 1960 and a minimum value of 8.10 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
1960 171.40
1961 166.30
1962 161.00
1963 155.70
1964 150.60
1965 145.90
1966 141.50
1967 137.50
1968 133.70
1969 130.00
1970 126.40
1971 122.80
1972 119.30
1973 115.80
1974 112.20
1975 108.50
1976 104.90
1977 101.10
1978 97.30
1979 93.50
1980 89.70
1981 85.80
1982 82.00
1983 78.20
1984 74.60
1985 71.10
1986 67.70
1987 64.50
1988 61.30
1989 58.40
1990 55.50
1991 52.80
1992 50.00
1993 47.30
1994 44.70
1995 42.20
1996 39.80
1997 37.40
1998 35.20
1999 33.00
2000 30.90
2001 29.00
2002 27.10
2003 25.30
2004 23.60
2005 22.00
2006 20.50
2007 19.20
2008 17.90
2009 16.60
2010 15.50
2011 14.50
2012 13.60
2013 12.70
2014 11.90
2015 11.10
2016 10.50
2017 9.80
2018 9.20
2019 8.60
2020 8.10

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 Extrapolations based on outdated surveys may not be reliable for monitoring changes in health status or for comparative analytical work.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