全球所有地区的儿童死亡率均已显著下降

In 1950, almost one in four children worldwide died before their fifth birthday. In Africa, one in three children died.The chart shows the change since then. In every region, the mortality rate of children has declined.In Africa and Oceania, the child mortality rate declined 5-fold, in Asia 10-fold, and in Europe about 27-fold.Progress was not always steady. The sharp spike in Asia around 1960 was due to the “Great Leap Forward” famine in Mao’s China, the deadliest famine in recorded history.And the progress is far from finished. The global average has declined to 3.5%, but this still means that about 4.7 million children younger than five years died in 2025 — 13,000 children every single day.Explore child mortality data for every country in our interactive data explorer →