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Child mortality (long-run)

Share of children dying before age five — Gapminder historical estimates back to 1751 joined to UN IGME.

Indicator ID
owid:child-mortality-long-run
Unit
deaths per 100 live births
Source family
OWID

Source citation: Gapminder (2015); UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (2025) — processed by Our World in Data

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