Total child mortality rate of Egypt 1895-2020

The child mortality rate in Egypt for children under the age of five was 405 deaths per thousand births in 1895. This means that more than forty percent of children born in 1895 did not make it to their fifth birthday. Child mortality gradually decreased towards the middle of the 20th century, but began increasing in the years during and immediately following the Second World War. After peaking at 385 deaths per thousand births in 1955, however, child mortality in Egypt began to decrease rapidly, as a result of the establishment of the Egyptian republic in 1952, and subsequent implementation of universal healthcare for Egyptian citizens. This decrease in child mortality continued steadily downwards, before slowing somewhat in the beginning of the 21st century, and by the year 2020, the UN estimates that child mortality in Egypt is below twenty deaths per thousand births.