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Detailed explanation-1: -The under-five mortality rate refers to the probability a newborn would die before reaching exactly 5 years of age, expressed per 1, 000 live births. In 2021, 5.0 million children under 5 years of age died.

Detailed explanation-2: -This statistic shows the countries with the highest mortality rate among children aged under five years as of 2020. As of that year, Nigeria had the highest mortality rate, with an average of around 114 children dying, per one thousand live births, under five years of age.

Detailed explanation-3: -Child mortality, that is death between the first and the fifth birthday, is measured by a rate equal to the ratio of the deaths of this age and the average population in the same age range. (This is different from the infant mortality rate, which is obtained by dividing the number of deaths by births.)