Conceptualization: B. Tlou Data curation: F. Tanser Formal analysis: B. Tlou Funding acquisition: F. Tanser Methodology: B. Tlou Resources: F. Tanser Supervision: B. Sartorius, F. Tanser Writing–original draft: B. Tlou After publication of this article 1, the corresponding author notified the journal office that there are errors in the data analysis underlying their paper. While a “complete” cohort approach for risk factor analysis may not be a major limitation, in terms of performing a full due diligence, the corresponding author would like to clarify that he should have included details of the full cohort and description of the missing data in the original paper. Trends in early childhood mortality rates in deaths per 1,000-person years among live born children. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0306379.t002 Fig 2 needs to be updated to reflect the change in the y-axis values, rather than any changes to trend pattern over the period.