  
<prompt> Trends in Childhood Mortality
 Deaths per 1,000 live births for the five-year period before the survey 
 [["", "Under-5 mortality", "Infant mortality", "Neonatal mortality"], ["EDSM 1987", 247, 105, 51], ["EDSM 1995-96", 238, 122, 60], ["EDSM 2001", 229, 113, 57], ["EDSM 2006", 191, 96, 46], ["EDSM 2012-13", 95, 56, 34], ["EDSM 2018", 101, 54, 33]] 
 <response> For the five-year period before the survey, the infant mortality rate (deaths to children before their first birthday) is 54 deaths per 1,000 live births. Most infant deaths occur during the first month of life: the neonatal mortality rate is 33 deaths per 1,000 live births. The under-5 mortality rate is 101 deaths per 1,000 live births.  