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Dataset · UN IGME
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.
Infant Mortality Rate · the file
- Newest
- 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.
| Year | Countries | Change | Read | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Infant Mortality Rate, 2024Newest | 200 | ±0 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Infant Mortality Rate, 2023 | 200 | ±0 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Infant Mortality Rate, 2022 | 200 | ±0 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Infant Mortality Rate, 2021 | 200 | ±0 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Infant Mortality Rate, 2020 | 200 | ±0 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Infant Mortality Rate, 2019 | 200 | ±0 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Infant Mortality Rate, 2018 | 200 | ±0 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Infant Mortality Rate, 2017 | 200 | ±0 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Infant Mortality Rate, 2016 | 200 | ±0 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Infant Mortality Rate, 2015 | 200 | ±0 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Infant Mortality Rate, 2014 | 200 | ±0 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Infant Mortality Rate, 2013 | 200 | ±0 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
Show all 72 years
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.
| Column | What it holds | Stored as | Range, 2024 | Distinct | Empty | Spread |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CountrycountryName | The country’s name, as this file spells it. | Text | — | 200 | 0 | |
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier | The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it. | Text · 3 letters | — | 200 | 0 | |
Deaths before age one (per 1,000 live births)infant_mortalityHeadline | The headline figure: Deaths before age one (per 1,000 live births). | Number · up to 14 decimals | 1.214 San Marino71.870 South Sudanmiddle 12.260 | 200 | 0 | |
Lower bound (90% uncertainty)lowerwhiskerMeasure | Lower end of the 90% uncertainty interval around the estimate, in deaths before age one per 1,000 live births. | Number · up to 15 decimals | 0.5684San Marino59.6350 Nigeriamiddle 8.8946 | 200 | 0 | |
Upper bound (90% uncertainty)upperwhiskerMeasure | Upper end of the 90% uncertainty interval around the estimate, in deaths before age one per 1,000 live births. | Number · up to 14 decimals | 1.865 Estonia209.984South Sudanmiddle 17.212 | 200 | 0 |
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.
| 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Africa | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 |
| Americas | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 |
| Asia | 48 | 48 | 48 | 48 | 48 | 48 | 48 | 48 | 48 | 48 | 48 | 48 |
| Europe | 43 | 43 | 43 | 43 | 43 | 43 | 43 | 43 | 43 | 43 | 43 | 43 |
| Oceania | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 |
| All | 200 | 200 | 200 | 200 | 200 | 200 | 200 | 200 | 200 | 200 | 200 | 200 |
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 · 24 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.
1 · Publisher
UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME)
2 · Their file
UN IGME 2025 — infant mortality, 2024
3 · Read by this site
September 26, 2026
Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.4 · Stored as
72 files, one per year
Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as infant-mortality-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv5 · 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.
Licence · checked September 9, 2026
- 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.
06Where it is used
Around the site
Where these numbers appear on this site, and the datasets nearest to it.
Charted
Infant Mortality Rate by countryWho is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.
Subjects
Near neighbours
- Life Expectancy at BirthUN DESA Population Division · 74 held · 1950–2023
- Under-Five Mortality RateUN IGME · 73 held · 1952–2024
- Prevalence of Severe Food InsecurityFAO · 9 held · 2015–2023
07Questions
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.