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Costa Rica

Costa Rica is a upper middle income country in Latin America and Caribbean. It ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. In 2015 the country committed to support delivery of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 and the pledge to leave no one behind.

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Under-five mortality

Costa Rica

Costa Rica is a upper middle income country in Latin America and Caribbean. It ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. In 2015 the country committed to support delivery of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 and the pledge to leave no one behind.

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Trends and projections

How inequalities
evolve

Explore how children's outcomes are changing over time. Where data is available, you can also study how these changes differs between groups of children.

Costa Rica Trends and projections of Under-five mortality

Probability of a child dying before they reach their fifth birthday (per 1,000 live births)
Costa Rica average
Projections
    Source: UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation / Save the Children estimates
    Rankings

    Costa Rica
    in context

    Compare the situation of children in Costa Rica with other countries.

    Ranking of world countries by Under-five mortality

    Source: UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation / Save the Children estimates
    Rankings

    Inside
    Costa Rica

    Where a child grows up matters. Explore inequalities between different states or provinces within a country, through a subnational disaggregation of data.

    Source: UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation / Save the Children estimates
    Group-based inequalities

    Highlighting Inequalities

    Investigate how sex, residence, socio-economic status or disability inequalities vary between different subnational regions.

    Under-five mortality of Costa Rica regions disaggregations by Sex.

    Probability of a child dying before they reach their fifth birthday (per 1,000 live births)
    Source: UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation / Save the Children estimates
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      Costa Rica

      Trends and projections of Under-five mortality

      Probability of a child dying before they reach their fifth birthday (per 1,000 live births)

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      Country average
      Projections
        Source: UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation / Save the Children estimates

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