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Belize — Infant mortality
Infant Mortality Rate for Belize, 1967–2024.
Latest value · 2024
10.8
Infant Mortality Rate · per 1,000 live births · -87.2% since 1967
Infant mortality for Belize was 10.8 in 2024, according to the latest World Bank data. The series covers 58 years, from 1967 to 2024. The highest recorded value was 84.1 in 1967. Across that span the compound annual growth rate works out to -3.54% per year.
Belize ranks 110 of 196 economies on this measure (1 = highest), putting it in the top 56%. The median for Latin America & Caribbean is 12.0, so Belize sits below it. It peaked in 1967 and has fallen 87% since. Over the last decade (2014–2024) the figure moved down 21%.
Key figures
Latest (2024)
10.8
First (1967)
84.1
Change
-87.2%
Highest
84.1
in 1967
Lowest
10.8
in 2024
Average
32.8
Annual growth (CAGR)
-3.54%
Years of data
58
Recent years
| Year | per 1,000 live births |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 10.8 |
| 2023 | 10.9 |
| 2022 | 10.9 |
| 2021 | 11 |
| 2020 | 11.1 |
| 2019 | 11.4 |
| 2018 | 11.7 |
| 2017 | 12.1 |
| 2016 | 12.6 |
| 2015 | 13.1 |
| 2014 | 13.6 |
| 2013 | 14.2 |
Reading this correctly. Number of infants dying before reaching one year of age, per 1,000 live births in a given year. Figures are in per 1,000 live births. Comparing this series with a different measure of the same concept (for example a nominal figure against a purchasing-power-parity figure) will give misleading results.
Related data
Source. World Bank Open Data, indicator
SP.DYN.IMRT.IN — Infant Mortality Rate. Data licensed under CC BY 4.0. Values are reproduced as published; this page computes the summary statistics (change, CAGR, extremes) from the underlying annual series. View the original dataset on data.worldbank.org.