Child mortality rate vs. electoral democracy

The child mortality rate is the share of children who die before reaching the age of five. Electoral democracy based on the expert assessments and index by V-Dem,ranging from 0 to 1 (most democratic).

Source: UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (via World Bank); OWID based on V-Dem (v13)

Note: The child mortality rate is the probability of a child born in a specific year or period dying before reaching the age of five, if subject to age-specific mortality rates of that period. This is given as theshare of live births.