International Journal of Scientific & Engineering Research, Volume 6, Issue 3, March-2015 521 ISSN 2229-5518 IJSER © 2015 http://www.ijser.org a Empirical Relationship of Birth Rate, Female Literacy Rate and GDP Per Capita with Child Mortality Rate in Pakistan Zareena Ali 1 , Talib Hussain 2 , Fawad Azam 3 Abstract--Child mortality is considering an important indicator of quality of life and economic condition in underdeveloped countries. It is also a good indicator of female’s literacy, adult health, income and birth rate. Pakistan has rapid economic growth from past few years. Despite of economic growth Pakistan has been unable to decrease child mortality rate to the target level. There are a lot of socioeconomic factors that affect child health. Due to the lake of data and many other problem this study has not include all variables. This study consider only three major factors are GDP per capita, females literacy rate and birth rate. This study result shows that increase in GDP per capita has significant affect to decrease child mortality. This study shows that females literacy play key role in decreasing child mortality because when mother is educated the chances to become a child sick is very low as compare to an uneducated woman .This study result shows that decrease in birth rate means child mortality rate will be also low. It means in Pakistan birth rate is high it is difficult for parent and government to provide efficient health facilities children as compare to developed nations. The study’s result imply that females literacy ,GDP per capita and birth rate are key determinants of child mortality, among other significant indicators. Key Words: Child mortality, female’s education, GDP per capita, Birth rate, Pakistan ——————————  —————————— 1. INTRODUCTION: To measure the health status of a country infant and child mortality rate is consider as one of the best measures. The rate of child mortality is not only measure the health status of a country but according to the world development report (1993, pp.34) shows that ‘an initial index of child health is infant mortality rate and is taken to be highly significant predicator of a country’s economic performance”. Child mortality fell everywhere in the world over the past few decades but the health result different across the boundaries and region because of increase in per capita income, increase awareness related to public health / increase in literacy rate. In most developing counties e. g Sir Lanka, China etc managed to decrease high infant mortality rate. In Pakistan the situation remains neglected. According to the World Development Report (1990, pp.180) Pakistan experienced period of rapid economic growth but enable to improve their human health. There are many complex factors, at aggregate level, which result child mortality rate but it is not possible to include all those factors due to the lake of data availability. In this study three main factors which result child mortality are GDP per capita, female literacy rate and birth rate. ‘In Pakistan , only 47% of children get immunization while 3.5m children face vitamin A deficiency , while adversely affect vision, growth and reproduction”, Said Dr Syed Mujahid Hussain, immunization officer at Ministry of Health Islamabad. IJSER