The UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME) was formed in 2004 to share data on child mortality, harmonize estimates within the UN system, improve methods for child mortality estimation, report on progress towards child survival goals and enhance country capacity to produce timely and properly assessed estimates of child mortality. UN IGME, led by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization (WHO), also includes the World Bank Group and the United Nations Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs as full members.
UN IGME's independent Technical Advisory Group (TAG), comprising leading academic scholars and independent experts in demography and biostatistics, provides guidance on estimation methods, technical issues and strategies for data analysis and data quality assessment.
UN IGME updates its child mortality estimates annually after reviewing newly available data and assessing data quality.
The United Nation Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME) constitutes representatives of UNICEF, WHO, the World Bank Group and the United Nations Population Division. Differences between the estimates presented in this report and those in forthcoming publications by UN IGME members may arise because of differences in reporting periods or in the availability of data during the production process of each publication and other evidence. UN IGME estimates were reviewed by countries through a country consultation process but are not necessarily the official statistics of United Nations Member States, which may use a single source of data or alternative rigorous methods.
Levels and Trends in Child Mortality: Reports
Levels and Trends in Child Mortality Report 2017
Levels and Trends in Child Mortality Report 2015
Levels and Trends in Child Mortality Report 2014
Levels and Trends in Child Mortality Report 2013
Levels and Trends in Child Mortality Report 2012
Levels and Trends in Child Mortality Report 2012 Annex - Technical Notes
Levels and Trends in Child Mortality Report 2011
Levels and Trends in Child Mortality Report 2010
PLoS Medicine Collection: Child Mortality Estimation Methods
(Also available on http://www.ploscollections.org/childmortalityestimation.)
Child Mortality Estimation 2013: An Overview of Updates in Estimation Methods by the United Nations Inter-Agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation
Leontine Alkema, Jin Rou New, Jon Pedersen, Danzhen You, all members of the UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation and its Technical Advisory Group
Child Mortality Estimation: Accelerated Progress in Reducing Global Child Mortality, 1990-2010
Kenneth Hill, Danzhen You, Mie Inoue, Mikkel Z. Oestergaard, Technical Advisory Group of the United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation
Child Mortality Estimation: Methods Used to Adjust for Bias due to AIDS in Estimating Trends in Under-Five Mortality
Neff Walker, Kenneth Hill, Fengmin Zhao
Child Mortality Estimation: Appropriate Time Periods for Child Mortality Estimates from Full Birth Histories
Jon Pedersen, Jing Liu
Child Mortality Estimation: A Global Overview of Infant and Child Mortality Age Patterns in Light of New Empirical Data
Michel Guillot, Patrick Gerland, Francois Pelletier, Ameed Saabneh
Child Mortality Estimation: Estimating Sex Differences in Childhood Mortality since the 1970s
Cheryl Chriss Sawyer
Child Mortality Estimation: A Comparison of UN IGME and IHME Estimates of Levels and Trends in Under-Five Mortality Rates and Deaths
Leontine Alkema, Danzhen You
Other Papers
Child Mortality Estimation Explanatory Notes
United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation
Global, regional, and national levels and trends in under-5 mortality between 1990 and 2015, with scenario-based projections to 2030: a systematic analysis by the UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation
Danzhen You, Lucia Hug, Simon Ejdemyr, Priscila Idele, Daniel Hogan, Colin Mathers, Patrick Gerland, Jin Rou New, Leontine Alkema, for the United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME)
Global Estimation of Child Mortality using a Bayesian B-Spline Bias-Reduction Method
Leontine Alkema, Jin Rou New
Global Estimation of Neonatal Mortality Using a Bayesian Hierarchical Splines Regression Model
Monica Alexander, Leontine Alkema
National, regional, and global sex ratios of infant, child, and under-5 mortality and identification of countries with outlying ratios: a systematic assessment
Leontine Alkema, Fengqing Chao, Danzhen You, Jon Pedersen, Cheryl C Sawyer
Levels and Trends of Child Mortality in 2006: Estimates developed by the Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (Working Paper)
UNICEF, WHO, The World Bank Group and UN Population Division