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

Statistics on a page can easily blur into abstractions, but child mortality is a measure of the most profound human grief and resilience. When we look at child mortality (under 5) in Thailand, we are looking at real children who took their first breaths and whose stories were cut short. Every single data point represents a family and a community altered by loss. Behind these numbers lie the actual lives lived across generations, mapping the invisible weight of history onto human experience.

The historical arc over three centuries reveals a profound transformation. In the 1800s estimate, the figures were starkly high, starting at 358.26 in the 1800s estimate and moving slowly downward through the 1810s estimate, the 1820s estimate, the 1830s estimate, the 1840s estimate, the 1850s estimate, the 1860s estimate, the 1870s estimate, the 1880s estimate, and the 1890s estimate. By the 1900s estimate, it was 303.39 per 1,000 births, and by 1900 it was 303.39 per 1,000 births. The decline continued steadily through the 1910s estimate, the 1920s estimate, the 1930s estimate, the 1940s estimate, the 1950s, the 1960s, the 1970s, the 1980s, the 1990s, the 2000s, and the 2010s. In the 2020s, child mortality (under 5) in Thailand stands at 8.7 per 1,000 births — ranking #63 of 157 countries. Projections point even lower to the 2030s projection, the 2040s projection, the 2050s projection, the 2060s projection, the 2070s projection, the 2080s projection, the 2090s projection, and the 2100s projection.

If you were born in Thailand across these different eras, your odds of surviving early childhood shifted dramatically. An infant arriving in the nineteenth century faced a vastly different reality than one born today. Yet whether looking back at the past or toward the future, these statistics illuminate the changing conditions of human survival. Where do YOU rank among everyone ever born? →