Mortality Decline in Kenya: A Reexamination of Recent Under-Five Mortality Estimate

Table 7

Effect of birth displacement on under-five mortality rate estimate, 2003 KDHS.

Age-specific mortality	0-1 period	0–2 period	0–3 period	0–4 period	0–5 period	1–5 period
0-1 years	0.0666	0.0726	0.0729	0.0745	0.0736	0.0755
1-2 years	0.0158	0.0152	0.0159	0.0155	0.0138	0.0133
2-3 years	0.0095	0.0086	0.0088	0.0067	0.0093	0.0092
3-4 years	0.0024	0.0037	0.0041	0.0040	0.0047	0.0053
4-5 years	0.0024	0.0021	0.0016	0.0023	0.0025	0.0026
U5MR	0.0967	0.1021	0.1033	0.1030	0.1040	0.1059

Published under-five mortality rate = 0.115.