Historical chart and dataset showing Ethiopia infant mortality rate by year from 1950 to 2025.

The infant mortality rate in Ethiopia decreased by 1.3 deaths per 1,000 live births (-3.51 percent) compared to the previous year. Therefore, the infant mortality rate in Ethiopia saw its lowest number in that year with 35.7 deaths per 1,000 live births. The infant mortality rate is the number of newborns who do not survive past the first 12 months of life. This is generally expressed as a value per 1,000 live births, and also includes neonatal mortality (deaths within the first 28 days of life).Find more statistics on other topics about Ethiopia with key insights such as total life expectancy at birth, death rate, and crude birth rate.

UNICEF's country profile for Ethiopia, including under-five mortality rates, child health, education and sanitation data.

Graph and download economic data for Infant Mortality Rate for Ethiopia (SPDYNIMRTINETH) from 1966 to 2023 about mortality, infant, Ethiopia, and rate.

Ethiopia ET: Mortality Rate: Infant: Female: per 1000 Live Births data was reported at 36.000 Ratio in 2016. This records a decrease from the previous number of 37.400 Ratio for 2015. Ethiopia ET: Mortality Rate: Infant: Female: per 1000 Live Births data is updated yearly, averaging 47.400 Ratio from Dec 1990 (Median) to 2016, with 5 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 108.700 Ratio in 1990 and a record low of 36.000 Ratio in 2016. Ethiopia ET: Mortality Rate: Infant: Female: per 1000 Live Births data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Ethiopia – Table ET.World Bank: Health Statistics. Infant mortality rate, female is the number of female infants dying before reaching one year of age, per 1,000 female live births in a given year.; ; Estimates developed by the UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UNICEF, WHO, World Bank, UN DESA Population Division) at www.childmortality.org.; Weighted Average; Given that data on the incidence and prevalence of diseases are frequently unavailable, mortality rates are often used to identify vulnerable populations. Moreover, they are among the indicators most frequently used to compare socioeconomic development across countries. Under-five mortality rates are higher for boys than for girls in countries in which parental gender preferences are insignificant. Under-five mortality captures the effect of gender discrimination better than infant mortality does, as malnutrition and medical interventions have more significant impacts to this age group. Where female under-five mortality is higher, girls are likely to have less access to resources than boys.

Mortality rate, infant (per 1,000 live births) in Ethiopia was reported at 35.7 % in 2023, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. Ethiopia - Mortality rate, infant (per 1,000 live births) - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on July of 2025.

Data has been sourced from the Ethiopia Demographic and Health Survey 2011.More information about the data is available on the metadata of the attached datasheet.

Mortality rate, infant, female (per 1,000 live births) in Ethiopia was reported at 30.2 % in 2023, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. Ethiopia - Mortality rate, infant, female (per 1,000 live births) - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on July of 2025.

Ethiopia ET: Mortality Rate: Under-5: Male: per 1000 Live Births data was reported at 63.700 Ratio in 2016. This records a decrease from the previous number of 66.700 Ratio for 2015. Ethiopia ET: Mortality Rate: Under-5: Male: per 1000 Live Births data is updated yearly, averaging 87.200 Ratio from Dec 1990 (Median) to 2016, with 5 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 215.300 Ratio in 1990 and a record low of 63.700 Ratio in 2016. Ethiopia ET: Mortality Rate: Under-5: Male: per 1000 Live Births data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Ethiopia – Table ET.World Bank: Health Statistics. Under-five mortality rate, male is the probability per 1,000 that a newborn male baby will die before reaching age five, if subject to male age-specific mortality rates of the specified year.; ; Estimates Developed by the UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UNICEF, WHO, World Bank, UN DESA Population Division) at www.childmortality.org.; Weighted Average; Given that data on the incidence and prevalence of diseases are frequently unavailable, mortality rates are often used to identify vulnerable populations. Moreover, they are among the indicators most frequently used to compare socioeconomic development across countries. Under-five mortality rates are higher for boys than for girls in countries in which parental gender preferences are insignificant. Under-five mortality captures the effect of gender discrimination better than infant mortality does, as malnutrition and medical interventions have more significant impacts to this age group. Where female under-five mortality is higher, girls are likely to have less access to resources than boys.

The rate of under-5, infant, and neonatal deaths, and rate of change in 1990, 2000, 2015, 2019 in Ethiopia and administrative regions.

Number of infant deaths in Ethiopia was reported at 145121 deaths in 2023, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. Ethiopia - Number of infant deaths - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on June of 2025.

The death rate in Ethiopia decreased to 5.96 deaths per 1,000 inhabitants compared to the previous year. Therefore, 2023 marks the lowest death rate during the observed period. Notably, the death rate is continuously decreasing over the last years.The crude death rate is the annual number of deaths divided by the total population, expressed per 1,000 people.Find more statistics on other topics about Ethiopia with key insights such as infant mortality rate, total fertility rate, and total life expectancy at birth.

Mortality rate, infant, male (per 1,000 live births) in Ethiopia was reported at 41 % in 2023, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. Ethiopia - Mortality rate, infant, male (per 1,000 live births) - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on July of 2025.

Mortality rate, under-5 (per 1,000 live births) in Ethiopia was reported at 46.5 % in 2023, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. Ethiopia - Mortality rate, under-5 (per 1,000) - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on July of 2025.

In 2023, the total life expectancy at birth in Ethiopia remained nearly unchanged at around 67.32 years. Nevertheless, 2023 still represents a peak in the life expectancy at birth in Ethiopia with 67.32 years. These figures refer to the expected lifespan of the average newborn in a given country or region, providing that mortality patterns at the time of birth remain constant thereafter.Find more statistics on other topics about Ethiopia with key insights such as total fertility rate, infant mortality rate, and death rate.

Ethiopia ET: Number of Death: Infant data was reported at 132,073.000 Person in 2016. This records a decrease from the previous number of 135,952.000 Person for 2015. Ethiopia ET: Number of Death: Infant data is updated yearly, averaging 229,078.500 Person from Dec 1967 (Median) to 2016, with 50 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 272,203.000 Person in 1993 and a record low of 132,073.000 Person in 2016. Ethiopia ET: Number of Death: Infant data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Ethiopia – Table ET.World Bank: Health Statistics. Number of infants dying before reaching one year of age.; ; Estimates developed by the UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UNICEF, WHO, World Bank, UN DESA Population Division) at www.childmortality.org.; Sum;

Fixed effects models of infant mortality, using multilevel logistic regression of individual-household- and community-level determinants associated with infant mortality.

Mortality rate, under-5, female (per 1,000 live births) in Ethiopia was reported at 40.3 % in 2023, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. Ethiopia - Mortality rate, under-5, female (per 1,000 live births) - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on May of 2025.

Background: For decades, health targeted aid in the form of development assistance for health has been an important source of financing health sectors in developing countries. Health sectors in Sub Saharan countries in general and Ethiopia in particular, are even more heavily reliant upon donors. Consequently, a more audible donors support to health sectors was seen during the last four decades, consistent with the donor's response to the global goal of Alma-Ata declaration of "health for all by the year 2000" through primary health care in 1978. Ever since, a massive surge of development assistance for health has followed the out gone of the 2015 United Nations Millennium Declaration Goals in which three out of the eight goals were directly related to health. In spite of the long history of health targeted aid, with an ever increasing volumes, there is an increasing controversy on the extent to which health targeted aid is producing the intended health outcomes in the recipient countries. Despite the vast empirical literatures considering the effect of foreign development aid on economic growth of the recipient countries, systematic evidence that health sector targeted aid improves health outcomes is relatively scarce. The main contribution of this study is, therefore, to present a comprehensive country level, and cross-country evidences on the effect of development assistance for health on health outcomes. Objectives: The overall objective of this study was to analyze the effect of development assistance for health on health outcomes in Ethiopia, and in Sub Saharan Africa. Methods: For the Ethiopian (country level) study, a dynamic time series data analytic approach was employed. A retrospective sample of 36-year observations from 1978 to 2013 was analyzed using an econometric technique - vector error correction model. Beside including time dependency between the variables of interest and allowing for stochastic trends, the model provides valuable information on the existence of long-run and short-run relationships among the variables under study. Furthermore, to estimate the co-integrating relations and the other parameters in the model, the standard procedure of Johansen's approach was used. While development assistance for health expenditure was used as an explanatory variable of interest, life expectancy at birth was used as a dependent variable for the fact that it has long been used with or without mortality measures as health status indicators in the literatures.In the Sub Saharan Africa (cross-country level) study, a dynamic panel data analytic approach was employed using fixed effect, random effect, and the first difference-generalized method of moments estimators in the period confined to the year 1995-2013 over the cross section of 43 SSA countries. While development assistance for health expenditure was used as an explanatory variable of interest here again, infant mortality rate was used for health status measure done for its advantage over other mortality measures in cross-country studies. Results: In Ethiopia, the immediate one and two prior year of development assistance for health was shown to have a significant positive effect on life expectancy at birth. Other things being equal, an increase of development assistance for health expenditure per capita by 1% leads to an improvement in life expectancy at birth by about 0.026 years (P=0.000) in the immediate year following the period, and 0.008 years following the immediate prior two years period (P= 0.025). Similarly, in Sub-Saharan Africa, development assistance for health was found to have a strong negative effect on the reduction of infant mortality rate. The estimates of the study result indicated that during the covered period of study, in the region, a 1% increase in development assistance for health expenditure, which is far less than 10 cents per capita at the mean level, saves the life of two infants per 1000 live births (P=0.000). Conclusion: Contrary to the views of health aid skeptics, this study indicates strong favorable effect of development assistance for health sector in improving health status of people in Sub Saharan Africa in general and the Ethiopia in particular. Recommendations: The policy implication of the current findings is that development assistance for health sector should continue as an interim necessity means. However, domestic health financing system should also be sought, as the targeted countries cannot rely upon external resources continuously for improving the health status of the population. At the same time, the current development assistance stakeholders assumption of targeting facility based primary health care provision should be augmented by a more strong parallel strategy of improving socioeconomic status of the population that promotes sustainable improvement of health status in the targeted countries.

Ethiopia ET: Number of Death: Under-5 data was reported at 188,690.000 Person in 2017. This records a decrease from the previous number of 195,563.000 Person for 2016. Ethiopia ET: Number of Death: Under-5 data is updated yearly, averaging 384,106.000 Person from Dec 1971 (Median) to 2017, with 47 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 441,491.000 Person in 1992 and a record low of 188,690.000 Person in 2017. Ethiopia ET: Number of Death: Under-5 data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Ethiopia – Table ET.World Bank: Health Statistics. Number of children dying before reaching age five.; ; Estimates developed by the UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UNICEF, WHO, World Bank, UN DESA Population Division) at www.childmortality.org.; Sum;