Costa Rica · Under-5 Mortality (WHO)
10.42024
Unit: per 1,000 live births. Publisher measure: Under-five mortality rate (probability of dying by age 5 per 1000 live births).
Probability of dying before the fifth birthday, both sexes and the whole wealth population (total wealth group), expressed per 1,000 live births under reference-year mortality conditions.
Measurement basis: UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME) modelled or adjusted mortality probabilities/rates, disseminated by WHO.
Reference-period cadence: annual.
Source update cadence: annual. This does not establish a publication date for an individual reading.
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World Health Organization (Global Health Observatory); retrieved 2026-09-07. Retrieval time is separate from an official publisher release vintage.
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Reported estimates and uncertainty · 76 rows
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| Country | Year | Reading | Lower endpoint | Upper endpoint | Publisher note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Costa Rica | 1949 | 132.245525335 | 115.902420136 | 150.292284945 | — |
| Costa Rica | 1950 | 131.26608348 | 118.438851523 | 144.848993737 | — |
| Costa Rica | 1951 | 129.966589763 | 120.145588226 | 140.324849839 | — |
| Costa Rica | 1952 | 128.664053176 | 120.838365566 | 136.743289525 | — |
| Costa Rica | 1953 | 126.891057654 | 120.720664307 | 133.257441474 | — |
| Costa Rica | 1954 | 124.556121522 | 119.667719107 | 129.595795173 | — |
| Costa Rica | 1955 | 121.350595468 | 117.462011113 | 125.364807002 | — |
| Costa Rica | 1956 | 117.023645763 | 114.046416373 | 120.031258021 | — |
| Costa Rica | 1957 | 111.78639779 | 109.435692074 | 114.153887862 | — |
| Costa Rica | 1958 | 106.086959023 | 103.991727142 | 108.143933283 | — |
| Costa Rica | 1959 | 100.532090649 | 98.682520405 | 102.38775477 | — |
| Costa Rica | 1960 | 96.149865974 | 94.314136014 | 97.935084172 | — |
| Costa Rica | 1961 | 93.738791741 | 91.973814734 | 95.443937608 | — |
| Costa Rica | 1962 | 92.794089719 | 91.048722059 | 94.54649892 | — |
| Costa Rica | 1963 | 92.363293449 | 90.609082361 | 94.171395718 | — |
| Costa Rica | 1964 | 91.613291019 | 89.970350124 | 93.40390927 | — |
| Costa Rica | 1965 | 90.208455693 | 88.528587716 | 91.993991617 | — |
| Costa Rica | 1966 | 87.850857094 | 86.235131327 | 89.51220354 | — |
| Costa Rica | 1967 | 84.832535836 | 83.271281892 | 86.431773765 | — |
| Costa Rica | 1968 | 81.661677048 | 80.123417913 | 83.198248593 | — |
| Costa Rica | 1969 | 78.489834393 | 77.053371272 | 79.946314417 | — |
| Costa Rica | 1970 | 74.769759003 | 73.363755689 | 76.204750374 | — |
| Costa Rica | 1971 | 70.092734636 | 68.822181027 | 71.40206988 | — |
| Costa Rica | 1972 | 64.496336785 | 63.336073593 | 65.732308489 | — |
| Costa Rica | 1973 | 58.302454963 | 57.25785952 | 59.434153397 | — |
| Costa Rica | 1974 | 51.818186869 | 50.90441076 | 52.75948325 | — |
| Costa Rica | 1975 | 45.364518929 | 44.524762514 | 46.181395322 | — |
| Costa Rica | 1976 | 39.220852692 | 38.490331476 | 39.920358023 | — |
| Costa Rica | 1977 | 33.84173993 | 33.20620872 | 34.463273588 | — |
| Costa Rica | 1978 | 29.573877964 | 29.00500747 | 30.124123017 | — |
| Costa Rica | 1979 | 26.48309356 | 26.003957348 | 26.966590145 | — |
| Costa Rica | 1980 | 24.448879135 | 23.992073127 | 24.907135268 | — |
| Costa Rica | 1981 | 23.354172325 | 22.93256068 | 23.787769818 | — |
| Costa Rica | 1982 | 22.895583197 | 22.477534426 | 23.321543505 | — |
| Costa Rica | 1983 | 22.700487377 | 22.269161885 | 23.13181916 | — |
| Costa Rica | 1984 | 22.471576077 | 22.057309632 | 22.895240615 | — |
| Costa Rica | 1985 | 22.004090432 | 21.587052247 | 22.43440041 | — |
| Costa Rica | 1986 | 21.157010671 | 20.762670528 | 21.562774936 | — |
| Costa Rica | 1987 | 20.044364835 | 19.659948106 | 20.423939607 | — |
| Costa Rica | 1988 | 18.87961732 | 18.516673565 | 19.256706483 | — |
| Costa Rica | 1989 | 17.824674301 | 17.476779735 | 18.181179957 | — |
| Costa Rica | 1990 | 16.931753987 | 16.581930889 | 17.286482176 | — |
| Costa Rica | 1991 | 16.227681512 | 15.898831858 | 16.580155554 | — |
| Costa Rica | 1992 | 15.710148915 | 15.387652814 | 16.043703282 | — |
| Costa Rica | 1993 | 15.340093763 | 15.021162429 | 15.68204382 | — |
| Costa Rica | 1994 | 15.089310317 | 14.779228279 | 15.423994864 | — |
| Costa Rica | 1995 | 14.899672627 | 14.577335356 | 15.234898548 | — |
| Costa Rica | 1996 | 14.714169088 | 14.4035336 | 15.040875355 | — |
| Costa Rica | 1997 | 14.468758614 | 14.15749825 | 14.788899432 | — |
| Costa Rica | 1998 | 14.106207546 | 13.798132966 | 14.422097369 | — |
| Costa Rica | 1999 | 13.619204899 | 13.322908371 | 13.91914585 | — |
| Costa Rica | 2000 | 13.088024471 | 12.789166189 | 13.395103178 | — |
| Costa Rica | 2001 | 12.589228042 | 12.295628974 | 12.891885063 | — |
| Costa Rica | 2002 | 12.157551313 | 11.87000963 | 12.457576818 | — |
| Costa Rica | 2003 | 11.805300067 | 11.520510906 | 12.102401904 | — |
| Costa Rica | 2004 | 11.538307945 | 11.264245617 | 11.832182274 | — |
| Costa Rica | 2005 | 11.344907782 | 11.061917088 | 11.638281993 | — |
| Costa Rica | 2006 | 11.200578252 | 10.921118998 | 11.485786257 | — |
| Costa Rica | 2007 | 11.073669732 | 10.795296574 | 11.351176931 | — |
| Costa Rica | 2008 | 10.928047489 | 10.646075984 | 11.206169857 | — |
| Costa Rica | 2009 | 10.732377364 | 10.46233397 | 11.003610302 | — |
| Costa Rica | 2010 | 10.482677203 | 10.20982132 | 10.757092799 | — |
| Costa Rica | 2011 | 10.175394583 | 9.915135196 | 10.44095312 | — |
| Costa Rica | 2012 | 9.84160005 | 9.589403562 | 10.100182973 | — |
| Costa Rica | 2013 | 9.514923023 | 9.2643309 | 9.772276368 | — |
| Costa Rica | 2014 | 9.227326124 | 8.985736788 | 9.478836424 | — |
| Costa Rica | 2015 | 9.014848946 | 8.763457259 | 9.264335819 | — |
| Costa Rica | 2016 | 8.898775816 | 8.65117711 | 9.148137221 | — |
| Costa Rica | 2017 | 8.884649048 | 8.635838885 | 9.140012106 | — |
| Costa Rica | 2018 | 8.960467669 | 8.700058935 | 9.224001071 | — |
| Costa Rica | 2019 | 9.115404708 | 8.843195008 | 9.384128729 | — |
| Costa Rica | 2020 | 9.330061326 | 9.04199884 | 9.612284319 | — |
| Costa Rica | 2021 | 9.583633089 | 9.296033583 | 9.879956642 | — |
| Costa Rica | 2022 | 9.86385223 | 9.5541607 | 10.182114769 | — |
| Costa Rica | 2023 | 10.146964504 | 9.760327068 | 10.54607286 | — |
| Costa Rica | 2024 | 10.406710636 | 9.869110689 | 10.969562544 | — |
One row per country, indicator and year, with raw values, source links and reuse notices. Thresholds have an empty numeric value and separate number/operator fields; value_kind distinguishes upper bounds from absent readings.