World - Number of infant deaths

The value for Number of infant deaths in World was 3,788,952 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 30 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 8,748,042 in 1990 and a minimum value of 3,788,952 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
1990 8,748,042
1991 8,570,569
1992 8,381,696
1993 8,189,873
1994 8,017,260
1995 7,808,870
1996 7,624,218
1997 7,438,220
1998 7,249,318
1999 7,059,286
2000 6,850,048
2001 6,644,815
2002 6,440,300
2003 6,242,661
2004 6,063,543
2005 5,866,396
2006 5,690,092
2007 5,515,902
2008 5,358,183
2009 5,182,941
2010 5,034,887
2011 4,869,239
2012 4,725,601
2013 4,589,704
2014 4,461,422
2015 4,339,959
2016 4,226,228
2017 4,105,663
2018 3,994,435
2019 3,890,216
2020 3,788,952

Aggregation method: Sum

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Mortality