South Africa · Under-5 Mortality (WHO)
35.12024
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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A “<” sign means strictly below the stated number. Numeric readings and uncertainty endpoints keep their own comparison signs. A number without a sign does not establish certainty or an observed outcome.
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 · 51 rows
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| Country | Year | Reading | Lower endpoint | Upper endpoint | Publisher note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| South Africa | 1974 | 132.257435692 | 104.867256052 | 167.552943535 | — |
| South Africa | 1975 | 124.859669341 | 102.773512151 | 151.925174913 | — |
| South Africa | 1976 | 117.754587551 | 99.240039492 | 140.026052296 | — |
| South Africa | 1977 | 111.06841523 | 94.945110377 | 130.018069215 | — |
| South Africa | 1978 | 104.717639535 | 90.14573517 | 121.903862308 | — |
| South Africa | 1979 | 98.782104665 | 85.429923871 | 114.582272765 | — |
| South Africa | 1980 | 93.45236182 | 80.844874369 | 107.838177241 | — |
| South Africa | 1981 | 88.496885979 | 76.689567189 | 101.836412143 | — |
| South Africa | 1982 | 83.78936066 | 72.616369041 | 96.367161062 | — |
| South Africa | 1983 | 79.628830154 | 69.164609114 | 91.368826329 | — |
| South Africa | 1984 | 75.899472258 | 65.879782307 | 87.132487732 | — |
| South Africa | 1985 | 72.30678098 | 62.930467874 | 83.069738116 | — |
| South Africa | 1986 | 68.892985453 | 60.085243414 | 79.223679699 | — |
| South Africa | 1987 | 65.666619977 | 57.364909936 | 75.699804878 | — |
| South Africa | 1988 | 62.670851375 | 54.738310247 | 72.28559238 | — |
| South Africa | 1989 | 60.080224301 | 52.406747825 | 69.336414319 | — |
| South Africa | 1990 | 58.099772009 | 50.68530888 | 66.997751644 | — |
| South Africa | 1991 | 56.772580726 | 49.630016841 | 65.415632988 | — |
| South Africa | 1992 | 56.243592475 | 49.169604437 | 64.725791526 | — |
| South Africa | 1993 | 56.619148151 | 49.587570362 | 65.165260053 | — |
| South Africa | 1994 | 57.779579648 | 50.785418051 | 66.389941305 | — |
| South Africa | 1995 | 59.186490752 | 52.336859083 | 67.777888634 | — |
| South Africa | 1996 | 60.895057026 | 54.264653984 | 69.243997576 | — |
| South Africa | 1997 | 62.892739743 | 56.329843186 | 70.55982281 | — |
| South Africa | 1998 | 65.801976882 | 59.606717814 | 72.713623169 | — |
| South Africa | 1999 | 68.724893492 | 62.772603401 | 74.881648268 | — |
| South Africa | 2000 | 71.368867102 | 65.86108241 | 76.941684967 | — |
| South Africa | 2001 | 74.547982809 | 69.36373076 | 79.884935723 | — |
| South Africa | 2002 | 76.969108214 | 71.763811827 | 82.320357877 | — |
| South Africa | 2003 | 79.201710767 | 74.032844066 | 84.495901386 | — |
| South Africa | 2004 | 80.689871619 | 75.446523187 | 85.940733601 | — |
| South Africa | 2005 | 79.751742282 | 74.788899841 | 84.788333672 | — |
| South Africa | 2006 | 76.873216822 | 72.28821139 | 81.924653541 | — |
| South Africa | 2007 | 71.227083742 | 66.983423269 | 76.09589631 | — |
| South Africa | 2008 | 63.741624139 | 59.808989785 | 68.232071905 | — |
| South Africa | 2009 | 56.853298721 | 53.245614879 | 61.032841777 | — |
| South Africa | 2010 | 50.253579165 | 47.061488023 | 53.946007418 | — |
| South Africa | 2011 | 45.575895207 | 42.627566928 | 48.830236451 | — |
| South Africa | 2012 | 43.051524741 | 40.356883048 | 46.097011743 | — |
| South Africa | 2013 | 41.390735011 | 38.860421269 | 44.157152501 | — |
| South Africa | 2014 | 39.748740678 | 37.336917642 | 42.361292825 | — |
| South Africa | 2015 | 38.199879961 | 35.855296533 | 40.704055439 | — |
| South Africa | 2016 | 36.838476381 | 34.465555104 | 39.248312073 | — |
| South Africa | 2017 | 35.705244199 | 33.229998486 | 38.118905576 | — |
| South Africa | 2018 | 34.889238573 | 32.39187695 | 37.267273998 | — |
| South Africa | 2019 | 34.329576629 | 31.814509916 | 36.727438889 | — |
| South Africa | 2020 | 33.891077795 | 31.553231105 | 36.257302911 | — |
| South Africa | 2021 | 33.96990471 | 31.644223076 | 36.451450448 | — |
| South Africa | 2022 | 34.305838987 | 31.508682921 | 37.467039141 | — |
| South Africa | 2023 | 34.758218155 | 30.997895468 | 39.140658744 | — |
| South Africa | 2024 | 35.064690627 | 30.108964283 | 41.321818225 | — |
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.