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Despite the significant reduction in deaths of under-five children globally, developing countries are still struggling to maintain an acceptable mortality rate. Globally, the death rate of under-five children is 41 per 1000 live births. However, the death rate of children in developing nations like Pakistan and Ethiopia per 1000 live births is 74 and 54, respectively. Such nations find it very challenging to decrease the mortality rate. Data analytics on healthcare data plays a pivotal role in identifying the trends and highlighting the key factors behind the children deaths. Similarly, predictive analytics with the help of Internet of Things based frameworks significantly advances the smart healthcare systems to forecast death trends for timely intervention. Moreover, it helps in capturing hidden associations between health-related variables and key death factors among children. In this study, a predictive analytics framework has been developed to predict the death rates with high accuracy and to find the significant determinants that cause high child mortality. Our framework uses an automated method of information gain to rank the information-rich mortality variables for accurate predictions. Ethiopian Demographic Health Survey and Pakistan Demographic Health Survey data sets have been used for the validation of our proposed framework. These real-world data sets have been tested using machine learning classifiers, such as Na\u00efve Bayes, decision tree, rule induction, random forest, and multi-layer perceptron, for the prediction task. 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