Important indicator is used to monitor progress towards the improvements in child survival for older children.

The probability of a child of age 5 years in a specific year or period dying before reaching the age of nine years, if subject to age-specific mortality rates of that period. 5-9 year 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 children aged 5 years.

survival, mortality, child mortality

Age, Sex, location

estimates

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 mortality for 5 to 9 year olds 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 5-9 year mortality rates are derived from a standard period abridged life table.   For countries with survey data, 5-9 year 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.

Global and regional estimates are derived from numbers of estimated deaths and population for age groups 5 to 9 years, aggregated by relevant region.

deaths per 1,000 children aged 5 years

Annual

on-going

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Predominant type of statistics: adjusted and predicted.