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Infant Mortality Rate

72 years, 1953–2024 · 200 countries · 3 measures

The infant mortality rate is how many children out of every thousand born alive die before their first birthday. Most child deaths happen in the first year, and many in the first month, so it is the part of child mortality most tied to care around birth — clean delivery, newborn care and vaccination.

This site holds every year from 1953 to 2024, read from UN IGME’s own data and stored exactly as published.

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Infant Mortality Rate, 2024
Held
72 years · 12,827 rows
Licence
CC BY 3.0 IGO

0172 years

Every year

Every year comes from UN IGME’s 2025 release, recalculated on one method. Each opens the full table for that year; each downloads as a CSV.

1953bar height: countries covered, up to 2002024
Every year of Infant Mortality Rate held on this site, newest first, with its download files.
YearCountriesChangeReadDownload
Infant Mortality Rate, 2024Newest200±0September 26, 2026CSV
Infant Mortality Rate, 2023200±0September 26, 2026CSV
Infant Mortality Rate, 2022200±0September 26, 2026CSV
Infant Mortality Rate, 2021200±0September 26, 2026CSV
Infant Mortality Rate, 2020200±0September 26, 2026CSV
Infant Mortality Rate, 2019200±0September 26, 2026CSV
Infant Mortality Rate, 2018200±0September 26, 2026CSV
Infant Mortality Rate, 2017200±0September 26, 2026CSV
Infant Mortality Rate, 2016200±0September 26, 2026CSV
Infant Mortality Rate, 2015200±0September 26, 2026CSV
Infant Mortality Rate, 2014200±0September 26, 2026CSV
Infant Mortality Rate, 2013200±0September 26, 2026CSV
Show all 72 years
YearCountriesChangeReadDownload
Infant Mortality Rate, 2012200±0September 26, 2026CSV
Infant Mortality Rate, 2011200±0September 26, 2026CSV
Infant Mortality Rate, 2010200±0September 26, 2026CSV
Infant Mortality Rate, 2009200±0September 26, 2026CSV
Infant Mortality Rate, 2008200±0September 26, 2026CSV
Infant Mortality Rate, 2007200±0September 26, 2026CSV
Infant Mortality Rate, 2006200±0September 26, 2026CSV
Infant Mortality Rate, 2005200±0September 26, 2026CSV
Infant Mortality Rate, 2004200±0September 26, 2026CSV
Infant Mortality Rate, 2003200±0September 26, 2026CSV
Infant Mortality Rate, 2002200±0September 26, 2026CSV
Infant Mortality Rate, 2001200±0September 26, 2026CSV
Infant Mortality Rate, 2000200±0September 26, 2026CSV
Infant Mortality Rate, 1999200±0September 26, 2026CSV
Infant Mortality Rate, 1998200±0September 26, 2026CSV
Infant Mortality Rate, 1997200±0September 26, 2026CSV
Infant Mortality Rate, 1996200±0September 26, 2026CSV
Infant Mortality Rate, 1995200±0September 26, 2026CSV
Infant Mortality Rate, 1994200±0September 26, 2026CSV
Infant Mortality Rate, 1993200±0September 26, 2026CSV
Infant Mortality Rate, 1992200±0September 26, 2026CSV
Infant Mortality Rate, 1991200±0September 26, 2026CSV
Infant Mortality Rate, 1990200±0September 26, 2026CSV
Infant Mortality Rate, 1989200±0September 26, 2026CSV
Infant Mortality Rate, 1988200±0September 26, 2026CSV
Infant Mortality Rate, 1987200±0September 26, 2026CSV
Infant Mortality Rate, 1986200±0September 26, 2026CSV
Infant Mortality Rate, 1985200+8September 26, 2026CSV
Infant Mortality Rate, 1984192+3September 26, 2026CSV
Infant Mortality Rate, 1983189+2September 26, 2026CSV
Infant Mortality Rate, 1982187+2September 26, 2026CSV
Infant Mortality Rate, 1981185+3September 26, 2026CSV
Infant Mortality Rate, 1980182+2September 26, 2026CSV
Infant Mortality Rate, 1979180+1September 26, 2026CSV
Infant Mortality Rate, 1978179+4September 26, 2026CSV
Infant Mortality Rate, 1977175+1September 26, 2026CSV
Infant Mortality Rate, 1976174+3September 26, 2026CSV
Infant Mortality Rate, 1975171+3September 26, 2026CSV
Infant Mortality Rate, 1974168±0September 26, 2026CSV
Infant Mortality Rate, 1973168+2September 26, 2026CSV
Infant Mortality Rate, 1972166+3September 26, 2026CSV
Infant Mortality Rate, 1971163+5September 26, 2026CSV
Infant Mortality Rate, 1970158±0September 26, 2026CSV
Infant Mortality Rate, 1969158+6September 26, 2026CSV
Infant Mortality Rate, 1968152+4September 26, 2026CSV
Infant Mortality Rate, 1967148+2September 26, 2026CSV
Infant Mortality Rate, 1966146+3September 26, 2026CSV
Infant Mortality Rate, 1965143+3September 26, 2026CSV
Infant Mortality Rate, 1964140+2September 26, 2026CSV
Infant Mortality Rate, 1963138+2September 26, 2026CSV
Infant Mortality Rate, 1962136+2September 26, 2026CSV
Infant Mortality Rate, 1961134+1September 26, 2026CSV
Infant Mortality Rate, 1960133+4September 26, 2026CSV
Infant Mortality Rate, 1959129+4September 26, 2026CSV
Infant Mortality Rate, 1958125+9September 26, 2026CSV
Infant Mortality Rate, 1957116+3September 26, 2026CSV
Infant Mortality Rate, 1956113+10September 26, 2026CSV
Infant Mortality Rate, 1955103+9September 26, 2026CSV
Infant Mortality Rate, 195494+12September 26, 2026CSV
Infant Mortality Rate, 195382—September 26, 2026CSV

Every year in one file, one row per country per year: infant-mortality-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

025 columns

What’s in the file

Every column, what it holds, how it is stored and what its values look like — what a reader needs before opening the file.

Every column in the newest file of Infant Mortality Rate: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.
ColumnWhat it holdsStored asRange, 2024DistinctEmptySpread
CountrycountryNameThe country’s name, as this file spells it.Text—2000
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifierThe ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.Text · 3 letters—2000
Deaths before age one (per 1,000 live births)infant_mortalityHeadlineThe headline figure: Deaths before age one (per 1,000 live births).Number · up to 14 decimals1.214San Marino71.870South Sudanmiddle 12.2602000
Lower bound (90% uncertainty)lowerwhiskerMeasureLower end of the 90% uncertainty interval around the estimate, in deaths before age one per 1,000 live births.Number · up to 15 decimals0.5684San Marino59.6350Nigeriamiddle 8.89462000
Upper bound (90% uncertainty)upperwhiskerMeasureUpper end of the 90% uncertainty interval around the estimate, in deaths before age one per 1,000 live births.Number · up to 14 decimals1.865Estonia209.984South Sudanmiddle 17.2122000

Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. A higher value is the worse result.

03200 countries across every year

Who is covered

How many countries each year holds, continent by continent, who joined and who left, and which places this site covers that the dataset never has.

All regions
Countries in each year of Infant Mortality Rate, by continent.
201320142015201620172018201920202021202220232024
Africa545454545454545454545454
Americas393939393939393939393939
Asia484848484848484848484848
Europe434343434343434343434343
Oceania161616161616161616161616
All200200200200200200200200200200200200

The newest 12 of 72 years.

Who joined and who left

  • 1985
    + Anguilla+ Andorra+ Guinea-Bissau+ Monaco+ Nauru+ San Marino+ Timor-Leste+ Kosovo
  • 1984
    + Bosnia and Herzegovina+ Montenegro+ Serbia
  • 1983
    + Somalia+ Suriname
  • 1982
    + Azerbaijan+ Equatorial Guinea
  • 1981
    + Croatia+ North Macedonia+ Slovenia
  • 1980
    + Angola+ Mongolia
  • 1979
    + Uzbekistan
  • 1978
    + Albania+ Djibouti+ Kyrgyzstan+ Laos

Not in this dataset · 25 places this site covers

UN IGME gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.

04Provenance

Where it comes from

The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.

The site’s method
  1. 1 · Publisher

    UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME)

  2. 2 · Their file

    UN IGME 2025 — infant mortality, 2024

  3. 3 · Read by this site

    September 26, 2026

    Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.
  4. 4 · Stored as

    72 files, one per year

    Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as infant-mortality-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv
  5. 5 · Used on

    Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

Precision

The headline is stored to 14 decimals, as published.

Rounded by this site

Never. Tables on screen may show fewer decimals; the files never do.

Changed by this site

Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

From the UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation, read out of UNICEF’s own SDMX warehouse (CME_MRY0) rather than the World Bank’s copy, which rounds to one decimal. The UN Population Division publishes a separate infant mortality estimate; this site uses IGME’s, the UN's designated producer.

05Reuse

Licence and credit

What the publisher’s licence lets you do, what it asks of you, and a credit line and citation ready to copy.

Every publisher’s terms

Licence · checked September 9, 2026

CC BY 3.0 IGO

  • Share and redistribute it
  • Adapt it and build on it
  • Use it commercially
  • Credit the publisher
  • Say what you changed

The version of CC BY written for intergovernmental organisations. Credit the publisher and say what you changed.

A credit line

Source: UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME), Infant Mortality Rate, via Nations Inquiry.

Cite this dataset

UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME). Infant Mortality Rate, 1953–2024 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/infant-mortality

The publisher’s own citation: UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation. Levels and Trends in Child Mortality. New York: UNICEF.

Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.

06Questions

Infant Mortality Rate: questions and answers

What is the Infant Mortality Rate?

The infant mortality rate is how many children out of every thousand born alive die before their first birthday. Most child deaths happen in the first year, and many in the first month, so it is the part of child mortality most tied to care around birth — clean delivery, newborn care and vaccination.

Which years of the Infant Mortality Rate can I download?

All 72, from 1953 to 2024, each as a CSV file, or every year together in one CSV.

Does UN IGME rank countries on it?

No. UN IGME publishes values only. The positions shown on this site are derived by ordering the published values, and are labelled as ours.

Can I use it commercially?

Yes, under CC BY 3.0 IGO, with credit to UN IGME. The licence text is linked on this page.

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