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

Table 8

Effect of birth displacement on under-five mortality rate estimate by periods, 2008-09 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	0.0587	0.0624	0.0576	0.0627	0.0634	0.0647
1-2 years	0.0176	0.0139	0.0138	0.0133	0.0139	0.0129
2-3 years	0.0059	0.0061	0.0061	0.0047	0.0062	0.0063
3-4 years	0.0023	0.0024	0.0037	0.0034	0.0035	0.0038
4-5 years	0.0000	0.0012	0.0012	0.0012	0.0017	0.0022
U5MR	0.0845	0.0861	0.0824	0.0853	0.0888	0.0900

Published under-five mortality rate = 0.074.