5 to 9 year mortality rate measures changes in older child survival. The population aged 5 to 9 years has relatively lower mortality in most countries as compared with young children and neonates. Nonetheless, this is an important age groups because the risksof deaths from injuries, notably road traffic injuries and drowning increase as young child age and become more mobile and therefore more independent.

The probability of a child aged 5 years in a specific year dying before reaching the age of 10 years, if subject to age-specific mortality rates of that period. The mortality rate for 5 to 9 year olds 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.

Age, Sex

Most frequently used methods using the above-mentioned data sources are as follows: • Civil registration: Number of deaths at age 0 and population for the same age are used to calculate death rate which are then converted into age-specific probability of dying. • Census and surveys: An indirect method is used based on questions to each woman of reproductive age as to how many children she has ever born and how many are still alive. The Brass method and model life tables are then used to obtain an estimate of infant mortality. • Surveys: A direct method is used based on birth history - a series of detailed questions on each child a woman has given birth to during her lifetime. To reduce sampling errors, the estimates are generally presented as period rates, for five or 10 years preceding the survey.

Impact

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.

Global and regional estimates are derived from numbers of estimated deaths and population for age groups 0 year, aggregated by relevant region.

Deaths per 1000 live births

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