  
<prompt> Trends in Childhood Mortality
 Deaths per 1,000 live births 
 [["", "1990 JPFHS", "1997 JPFHS", "2002 JPFHS", "2007 JPFHS", "2012 JPFHS"], ["Infant mortality", 34, 29, 22, 19, 17], ["Under-5 mortality", 39, 34, 27, 21, 21]] 
 <response> Under-5 mortality declined by 46% over the last 23 years from 39 deaths per 1,000 live births in 1990 to 21 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2012. Currently, the infant mortality is 17 deaths per 1,000 live births for the five-year period before the survey down from 34 deaths per 1,000 live births in 1990, a decline of 50%.  