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Infant Mortality Rate, 1954

1954, as UN IGME’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

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.

Infant Mortality Rate, 1954 covers 94 countries on 3 measures. Cameroon is highest, at 225.8; Sweden is lowest, at 18.4. The middle country reads 98.5. Against 1953, 82 values changed (4 up, 78 down), 12 countries joined.

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Infant Mortality Rate · Data for 1954

HighestCameroon

225.8

LowestSweden

18.4

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the lowest end.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Infant Mortality Rate, 1954, as published. UN IGME ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 94 countries · select a heading to sort

Infant Mortality Rate, 1954: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
derived
1CameroonCMRMiddle Africa225.8187.111270.72
2NepalNPLSouthern Asia225.3190.884266.39
3BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia215.6189.904245.60
4South SudanSSDEastern Africa209.1164.059273.10
5PakistanPAKSouthern Asia207.3179.744237.39
6IraqIRQWestern Asia195.2170.446224.35
7LiberiaLBRWestern Africa191.8145.326254.14
8GuineaGINWestern Africa191.1167.199217.88
9TürkiyeTURWestern Asia190.5164.242221.25
10PeruPERSouth America188.1164.849213.51
11Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa179.8158.046203.97
12IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia174.8155.142195.75
13Papua New GuineaPNGMelanesia171.5151.676193.29
14TuvaluTUVPolynesia169.5131.210221.61
15AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa168.7124.854222.08
16BeninBENWestern Africa167.1151.199185.45
17IndiaINDSouthern Asia164.2140.385190.75
18KiribatiKIRMicronesia155.1137.898174.30
19KenyaKENEastern Africa152.9134.604174.01
20LesothoLSOSouthern Africa152.0133.052175.79
21BrazilBRASouth America147.6131.382166.04
22SenegalSENWestern Africa146.7132.022163.64
23MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa145.6124.777171.14
24JordanJORWestern Asia144.9131.207160.37
25ChadTCDMiddle Africa144.1126.969163.46

02In 1954

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline, then the highest and lowest on each other measure.

Highest

  1. 1Cameroon225.8
  2. 2Nepal225.3
  3. 3Bangladesh215.6
  4. 4South Sudan209.1
  5. 5Pakistan207.3

Lowest

  1. 94Sweden18.4
  2. 93Iceland20.3
  3. 92Netherlands20.8
  4. 91Norway21.8
  5. 90Australia23.0

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 98.5. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestNepal190.884

    LowestSweden17.984

    Middle country: 87.266

  • Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestSouth Sudan273.10

    LowestSweden18.74

    Middle country: 114.20

031953 → 1954

Since 1953

What changed between 1953 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +12 / −0countries joined / left
  • 82values changed, of 82 in both
  • 4 · 78rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Botswana+ Chile+ Cameroon+ Colombia+ Algeria+ Liberia+ Peru+ Philippines+ Singapore+ South Sudan+ Tuvalu+ Zimbabwe

Both years come from the same release, so a difference here is a change in the data, not a revision of it. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

How values are stored

  • One year of the 2025 release

    Every year in this series comes from UN IGME’s 2025 release, recalculated on one method. It can differ from what was first published for 1954.

  • The position is ours

    UN IGME publishes values only; the order is this site’s.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 94 countries has every column.

05The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: 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.

Licence: CC BY 3.0 IGO · what it allows, in plain words

Cite this edition

UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME) (1954). Infant Mortality Rate, 1954 [data set], describing 1954. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/infant-mortality/1954

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