Levels and trends in child mortality: report 2021

Estimates developed by the UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (IGME)

12 December 2021
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Levels and trends in child mortality: report 2021
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Overview

The United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME) produces estimates of child and adolescent mortality annually, reconciling the differences across data sources and taking into account the systematic biases associated with the various types of data on child and adolescent mortality.

While about half the countries with available data for 2020 excess mortality analysis are high-income countries, evidence from low- and middle-income countries – e.g., Brazil, India, Kenya, Mexico, Mozambique and South Africa – similarly showed little impact on national-level child, adolescent and youth mortality in 2020. Following analysis of these
data and recommendations from its Technical Advisory Group, the UN IGME has not adjusted the 2020 rate for COVID-19-related mortality (see ‘Box: COVID-19 and Child and Youth Mortality in 2020’ on p. 6 for more details). The estimates in this report are based on empirical data up to 2020, where available, or extrapolation to 2020 by continuing recent trends from the most recent empirical data point available.


 

WHO Team
Child Health and Development (CHD), Maternal, Newborn, Child & Adolescent Health & Ageing (MCA)
Editors
UNICEF, WHO, WORLD BANK GROUP, UN-IGME
Number of pages
68
Reference numbers
ISBN: 978-92-806 -5321-2
Copyright
UNICEF