Measuring child mortality as a proportion of total mortality (5.9 %), the ROC ranks 27th in the world, far behind developing nations such as (former) Czechoslovakia, Poland, Portugal and Greece, and only a little better than in Cuba, Chile and Argentina.
而十四歲以下兒童的死亡率佔總死亡的百分之五．九，為排行世界第廿七名，遠在捷克、波蘭、葡萄牙、希臘等開發中國家之後，僅稍低於古巴、智利、阿根廷等國。