Child mortality in Spain 1845-2020

The child mortality rate in Spain, for children under the age of five, was 451 deaths per thousand births in 1800. This means that over 45 percent of all children born in 1800 did not make it to their fifth birthday. Child mortality remained above 300 for most of the nineteenth century, before falling at a much faster rate throughout the 1900s. Despite falling consistently during the last 120 years, there were two occasions where child mortality actually increased, which can be attributed to the Spanish Flu Pandemic in the 1910s and the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s. In 2020, the child mortality rate in Spain is expected to be just three deaths per thousand births.