Mortality during the neonatal period accounts for a large proportion of child deaths, and is considered to be a useful indicator of maternal and newborn neonatal health and care. Generally, the proportion of neonatal deaths among child deaths under the age of five is expected to increase as countries continue to witness a decline in child mortality.

Number of deaths during the first 28 completed days of life in a given year or other period.   Neonatal deaths (deaths among live births during the first 28 completed days of life) may be subdivided into early neonatal deaths, occurring during the first 7 days of life, and late neonatal deaths, occurring after the 7th day but before the 28th completed day of life.

Data from civil registration: The count of the number of neonatal deaths. This system provides annual data.   Data from household surveys: Calculations are based on full birth history, whereby women are asked for the date of birth of each of their children, whether the child is still alive, and if not the age at death.

These numbers of neonatal deaths are estimates, derived from the estimated UN IGME neonatal mortality rate multiplied by the live births. The live births were calculated by taking the infant population from the World Population Prospects: the 2012 revision (15) and adding back the deaths in the neonatal and post-neonatal periods while accounting for the fraction of period lived before the death. These neonatal deaths 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.

Sum by region

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Annual

Annual