Under-Five Mortality: North America

## What this measures

How many children die before their fifth birthday for every 1,000 born alive, for North America.

## Why it matters

It is one of the clearest measures of whether living conditions are improving: it moves with clean water, vaccines, nutrition, medical care and income.

## How to read it

Annual, dated December 31 of the reference year. Lower is better. Regions are the World Bank's groupings, weighted by births.

## What it does not say

These are modelled estimates from the UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation, built from surveys and civil registration of uneven quality, and they are revised as new data arrive. Recent years in countries without vital registration rest on projections.

## Source

World Bank, World Development Indicators (`SH.DYN.MORT`), estimates by the UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UNICEF, WHO, World Bank, UN DESA Population Division), via api.worldbank.org. CC BY 4.0.