Infant Mortality Rate | Cape Verde Islands

The estimated under-five mortality rate in Cape Verde Islands in 2025 amounted to 9.20 per 1,000 live births, which is 3.16% less than in 2024, when it was  9.50 per 1,000 live births. It has been falling in this country for already 75 years in a row. Over the entire period of data from the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs since 1950, this indicator has decreased in 15.08 times. The lowest under-five mortality rate was recorded in 2025, when it was 9.20 per 1,000 live births. The highest value was in 1950, when the under-five mortality rate in Cape Verde Islands reached 138.70 per 1,000 live births. The data is sourced from the UN report "World Population Prospects 2024", with the values for 2024 and 2025 being projections.
Estimates of neonatal, infant, and child mortality tend to vary by source and method for a given time and place. Years for available estimates also vary by country, making comparisons across countries and over time difficult. To make neonatal, infant, and child mortality estimates comparable and to ensure consistency across estimates by different agencies, the United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME), which comprises the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the World Health Organization (WHO), the World Bank, the United Nations Population Division, and other universities and research institutes, developed and adopted a statistical method that uses all available information to reconcile differences. The method uses statistical models to obtain a best estimate trend line by fitting a country-specific regression model of mortality rates against their reference dates.