variables: 146195

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146195 Under-five mortality rate (probability of dying by age 5 per 1000 live births)   Rationale: Under-five mortality rate measures child survival. It also reflects the social, economic and environmental conditions in which children (and others in society) live, including their health care. Because data on the incidences and prevalence of diseases (morbidity data) frequently are unavailable, mortality rates are often used to identify vulnerable populations. Under-five mortality rate is an MDG indicator. Definition: The probability of a child born in a specific year or period dying before reaching the age of five, if subject to age-specific mortality rates of that period.   Under-five mortality rate as defined here is strictly speaking not a rate (i.e. the number of deaths divided by the number of population at risk during a certain period of time) but a probability of death derived from a life table and expressed as rate per 1000 live births. Method of estimation: The Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality of Estimation which includes representatives from UNICEF, WHO, the World Bank and the United Nations Population Division, produces trends of under-five mortality with standardized methodology by group of countries depending on the type and quality of source of data available.  For countries with adequate trend of data from civil registration, the calculations of under-five and infant mortality rates are derived from a standard period abridged life table.   For countries with survey data, under-five mortality rates are estimated using the Bayesian B-splines bias-adjusted model. See the Estimation methods link for details.    These under-five mortality rates have been estimated by applying methods to all Member States to the available data from Member States, that aim to ensure comparability of across countries and time; hence they are not necessarily the same as the official national data.   Predominant type of statistics: adjusted and predicted. 2021-03-22 04:09:00 2023-06-15 05:05:42       5279 18006   
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    "name": "Child mortality rate",
    "unit": "%",
    "shortUnit": "%",
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}
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