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Costa Rica
Mortality rate, infant (per 1,000 live births)

Infant mortality rate is the number of infants dying before reaching one year of age, per 1,000 live births in a given year.

Global rank#119out of 196 countries
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Historical trend

70.855.039.323.57.7196019922024Costa Rica · 2024: 9.10Costa Rica

Analytical takeaways

  • Costa Rica records 9.10 for Mortality rate, infant (per 1,000 live births) in 2024, ranking #119 globally out of 196 countries.
  • Mortality rate, infant (per 1,000 live births) declined from 70.80 in 1960 to 9.10 in 2024, a decrease of 61.70.
  • The country sits in the middle of the global distribution for this metric, making the page a balanced entry point for comparative analysis beyond the extremes.

Comparison

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