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Costa Rica: Under-five mortality rate (per 1,000 live births)

10.40per 1,000 live births · 2024+13.0% since 2014

Probability of dying by age 5 per 1,000 live births. Annual figures for Costa Rica from 1949 to 2024.

19852024

Every year

YearValue (per 1,000 live births)Note
202410.4
202310.1
20229.9
20219.6
20209.3
20199.1
20189
20178.9
20168.9
20159
20149.2
20139.5
20129.8
201110.2
201010.5
200910.7
200810.9
200711.1
200611.2
200511.3
200411.5
200311.8
200212.2
200112.6
200013.1
199913.6
199814.1
199714.5
199614.7
199514.9
199415.1
199315.3
199215.7
199116.2
199016.9
198917.8
198818.9
198720
198621.2
198522
198422.5
198322.7
198222.9
198123.4
198024.4
197926.5
197829.6
197733.8
197639.2
197545.4
197451.8
197358.3
197264.5
197170.1
197074.8
196978.5
196881.7
196784.8
196687.9
196590.2
196491.6
196392.4
196292.8
196193.7
196096.1
1959100.5
1958106.1
1957111.8
1956117
1955121.4
1954124.6
1953126.9
1952128.7
1951130
1950131.3
1949132.2

Source

Published by World Health Organization. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO. Retrieved 2026-11-07.

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World Health Organization (2026). Under-five mortality rate (per 1,000 live births). Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/who-under5-mortality (accessed 2026-11-07). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

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