Volume 44 - Article 18 | Pages 415–442
Age patterns of under-5 mortality in sub-Saharan Africa during 1990‒2018: A comparison of estimates from demographic surveillance with full birth histories and the historic record
By Hallie Eilerts, Julio Romero Prieto, Jeffrey Eaton, Georges Reniers
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