Child mortality in Norway 1815-2020

The child mortality rate in Norway, for children under the age of five, was 336 deaths per thousand births in 1815. This means that approximately 34 percent of all children born in 1815 did not make it to their fifth birthday. Over the course of the next 205 years, this number has dropped drastically, particularly from 1865 onwards, and the rate has dropped to its lowest point ever in 2020 where it is just two deaths per thousand births, which is the lowest in the world. The only times where Norway's child mortality rate increased in the twentieth century was in the 1910s and 1940s, as a result of the Spanish Flu pandemic and the Second World War.

1815年，挪威五岁以下儿童的死亡率高达每千名出生婴儿中有336人死亡。这意味着在1815年出生的所有儿童中，约有34%未能活到五岁。在随后的205年间，这一数字急剧下降，尤其是自1865年以后，至2020年降至历史最低点，仅为每千名出生婴儿中有2人死亡，这一比率位居世界最低。在20世纪，挪威儿童死亡率仅在1910年代和1940年代有所上升，这主要归因于西班牙流感大流行和第二次世界大战的影响。