Child mortality in Belgium 1800-2020

The child mortality rate in Belgium, for children under the age of five, was 322 deaths per thousand births in 1800. This means that roughly one in every three children born in 1800 did not make it to their fifth birthday. Over the course of the next 220 years, this number has dropped drastically, particularly in the first half of the twentieth century, and the rate has dropped to its lowest point ever in 2020 where it is just three deaths per thousand births. The only point where the child mortality rate increased in Belgium since the twentieth century was immediately after the Second World War.