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Also known as child death, death of children, child mortality rate

death rate of infants and young children

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Child mortality is the death of children under the age of five. The child mortality rate (also under-five mortality rate) refers to the probability of dying between birth and exactly five years of age expressed per 1,000 live births.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “child mortality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.