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

Numbers in data journalism are rarely just figures on a page; they are the quiet measures of human reality. For Lebanon, child mortality under five tells a story of the most fragile beginnings of life. Of every 1,000 children born, how many died before their fifth birthday reveals an immense weight carried by families across generations. Every value is a statistical fact about the lives actually lived there, tracking the shifting boundary between infancy and growing up.

The historical arc spans three centuries of profound change. In the 1800s estimate, the toll stood at 430, dropping slowly through the decades to reach 400 in the 1900s estimate. From there, the steady descent continued through the 1910s estimate, the 1920s estimate, the 1930s estimate, and the 1940s estimate, down to 250 in the 1950s, 200 in the 1960s, 150 in the 1970s, and 100 in the 1980s. The downward trend pressed onward through 72.5 in the 1990s, 45 in the 2000s, and 33.5 in the 2010s.

In the 2020s, child mortality under five in Lebanon stands at 22 per 1,000 births, ranking #101 of 157 countries, with future projections stepping down through the 2030s projection of 17.6, the 2040s projection of 14.08, the 2050s projection of 11.26, the 2060s projection of 9.01, the 2070s projection of 7.21, the 2080s projection of 5.77, the 2090s projection of 4.61, and the 2100s projection of 3.69. If you were born here across these eras, your earliest years existed within these shifting probabilities. Where do YOU rank among everyone ever born?