Data · Education & health
Mortality rate, under-5 (per 1,000 live births): Vietnam, 1964–2024
- Latest (2024)
- 17.3 ‰
- Source
- World Bank
- Code
- SH.DYN.MORT
- Frequency
- Yearly
Definition
Under-five mortality rate is the probability per 1,000 that a newborn baby will die before reaching age five, if subject to age-specific mortality rates of the specified year.
What the series shows
The series runs from 1964 to 2024 (61 years of data). It moved from 99.4 to 17.3 ‰, a change of -82.6%. The highest value was 122.4 in 1972 and the lowest 17.3 in 2024. The comparison below sets Vietnam against 9 neighbouring economies on the latest available year.
Using it in a thesis
Indicators like this one are typical control or explanatory variables in macro and finance theses: merge the CSV with your other series on the year column, check for missing years before running a regression, and log-transform level variables that grow over time. If you use the series in a panel with other countries, take every country from the same source and vintage so the definitions match. Cite the original publisher, not this site, as shown below.
Values by year
| Year | Value (‰) |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 17.3 |
| 2023 | 17.8 |
| 2022 | 18.4 |
| 2021 | 18.9 |
| 2020 | 19.5 |
| 2019 | 20.0 |
| 2018 | 20.5 |
| 2017 | 20.9 |
| 2016 | 21.3 |
| 2015 | 21.6 |
| 2014 | 22.0 |
| 2013 | 22.3 |
| 2012 | 22.5 |
| 2011 | 22.8 |
| 2010 | 23.1 |
| 2009 | 23.4 |
| 2008 | 23.8 |
| 2007 | 24.3 |
| 2006 | 24.8 |
| 2005 | 25.4 |
| 2004 | 26.1 |
| 2003 | 26.9 |
| 2002 | 27.9 |
| 2001 | 29.0 |
| 2000 | 30.3 |
| 1999 | 31.8 |
| 1998 | 33.4 |
| 1997 | 35.2 |
| 1996 | 37.2 |
| 1995 | 39.4 |
| 1994 | 41.7 |
| 1993 | 44.1 |
| 1992 | 46.6 |
| 1991 | 49.1 |
| 1990 | 51.6 |
| 1989 | 54.0 |
| 1988 | 56.3 |
| 1987 | 58.5 |
| 1986 | 60.4 |
| 1985 | 62.2 |
| 1984 | 63.8 |
| 1983 | 65.2 |
| 1982 | 66.7 |
| 1981 | 68.2 |
| 1980 | 69.9 |
| 1979 | 71.6 |
| 1978 | 73.4 |
| 1977 | 75.2 |
| 1976 | 76.9 |
| 1975 | 78.5 |
| 1974 | 109.9 |
| 1973 | 106.6 |
| 1972 | 122.4 |
| 1971 | 107.6 |
| 1970 | 110.4 |
| 1969 | 111.3 |
| 1968 | 120.1 |
| 1967 | 103.9 |
| 1966 | 103.3 |
| 1965 | 102.9 |
| 1964 | 99.4 |
Comparison with other countries
| Country | Latest year | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Vietnam | 2024 | 17.3 |
| Thailand | 2024 | 9.0 |
| Indonesia | 2024 | 17.7 |
| Malaysia | 2024 | 8.3 |
| Philippines | 2024 | 26.5 |
| Singapore | 2024 | 2.7 |
| Cambodia | 2024 | 18.4 |
| Laos | 2024 | 29.4 |
| Myanmar | 2024 | 36.9 |
| China | 2024 | 5.7 |
How to cite (APA 7)
World Bank. (2026). Mortality rate, under-5 (per 1,000 live births), Vietnam [Data set]. World Development Indicators. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.DYN.MORT?locations=VN
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Retrieved 2026-11-02. The CSV has one row per period
with the variable name sh_dyn_mort, ready for Stata, R or SPSS.