Child Mortality (under 5) in Bosnia and Herzegovina: 1800 to Today (and Tomorrow)

To understand the statistic of child mortality in Bosnia and Herzegovina is to measure the shifting fragility of human life across three centuries. Of every 1,000 children born, how many died before their fifth birthday is a fundamental question of survival, marking the invisible boundary between infancy and growing up. Every value recorded in this dataset represents a statistical fact about the lives actually lived there, tracking a profound transformation in human wellbeing through decades of quiet progress and historical change.

In the 1800s estimate, child mortality stood at 400 per 1,000 births, slowly improving through the 1810s estimate at 385, the 1820s estimate at 370, the 1830s estimate at 355, the 1840s estimate at 340, the 1850s estimate at 325, the 1860s estimate at 310, the 1870s estimate at 295, the 1880s estimate at 280, and the 1890s estimate at 265. By 1900 it was 250 per 1,000 births, continuing downward through the 1900s estimate at 250, the 1910s estimate at 214, the 1920s estimate at 178, the 1930s estimate at 142, the 1940s estimate at 106, the 1950s at 70, the 1960s at 53.33, the 1970s at 36.67, the 1980s at 20, the 1990s at 15, the 2000s at 10, and the 2010s at 7.25.

In the 2020s, child mortality in Bosnia and Herzegovina stands at 4.5 per 1,000 births, ranking #29 of 157 countries. Looking ahead, the trajectory continues downward through the 2030s projection at 3.6, the 2040s projection at 2.88, the 2050s projection at 2.3, the 2060s projection at 1.84, the 2070s projection at 1.5, the 2080s projection at 1.5, the 2090s projection at 1.5, and the 2100s projection at 1.5. Where do YOU rank among everyone ever born?