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for children under the age of five has also signi ficantly reduced, now standing at 8.5 deaths per thousand live births. This is a marked improvement when contrasted with the average child mortality rates for the Eastern Mediterranean Region and on a global scale, which were 46 and 38 per thousand live births respectively. A range of healthcare indicators are shown in Table 8. 67 Sustainability and Resilience in the Saudi Arabian Health System The Partnership for Health System Sustainability and Resilience Table 8: Selected population health indicators 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 Mortality indicators Crude Death Rate (per 1,000 population) 2.4 Neonatal Mortality Rate (per 1,000 live births) 3.6 Infant Mortality Rate (per 1,000 live births) 6.0 Under-5 Mortality Rate (per 1,000 live births) 8.5 Maternal Mortality Ratio (per 100,000 live births) 11.9 Basic immunization coverage in the last five years (%) Hexavalent Vaccinea 98.0 96.0 97.0 97.4 97.3 Oral Polio Vaccine 96.0 98.0 97.5 97.0 97.6 BCG Vaccineb97.0 98.0 92.3 96.0 94.1 MMR Vaccine (measles, mumps & rubella) 96.0 96.0 96.5 96.4 97.0 Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine 98.0 98.0 97.0 97.0 96.7 Incidence rates of selected immunization targeted diseases in the last five years (per 100,000 population) Poliomyelitis 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 Whooping Cough 0.07 0.03 0.75 0.28 0.13 Measles 1.40 3.50 2.99 0.10 0.96 Pulmonary Tuberculosis (TB) 6.44 7.61 6.62 5.42 5.78 Extra-pulmonary TB 2.29 2.46 2.16 1.75 1.94 Pulmonary and Extra-pulmonary TB 8.73 10.07 8.78 7.17 7.72 Neonatal Tetanus (per 1,000 live births) 0.009 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.016 Injuries and deaths from road traf fic accidents in the last five years (per 100,000 population) Injuries 102.00 94.00 96.17 74.70 72.23 Deaths 22.96 18.03 16.82 13.19 13.64 a Diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, Hib, hepatitis B & polio inactivated vaccine. b Immunization date changed in August 2019 from 0 day to 6 months. Source: Ministry of Health, 2022.