UNICEF Childhood Mortality Data

A data set containing time series data by country for estimated under-5, infant, and neonatal mortality rates.

data(childMortality)

Format

A data frame with 28982 rows and 6 variables:

countryISO

two-letter country code

countryName

full name of country

continent

name of continent

category

type of mortality rate - infant_MR, child_MR, or under5_MR

year

year of estimate

estimate

estimated mortality rate

Source

https://childmortality.org

Examples

str(childMortality)
#> tibble [28,982 × 6] (S3: tbl_df/tbl/data.frame)
#>  $ countryISO : chr [1:28982] "AF" "AF" "AF" "AF" ...
#>  $ countryName: chr [1:28982] "Afghanistan" "Afghanistan" "Afghanistan" "Afghanistan" ...
#>  $ continent  : chr [1:28982] "Asia" "Asia" "Asia" "Asia" ...
#>  $ category   : chr [1:28982] "infant_MR" "infant_MR" "infant_MR" "infant_MR" ...
#>  $ year       : int [1:28982] 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 ...
#>  $ estimate   : num [1:28982] 240 236 232 228 225 ...