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Infant Mortality Rate, 1955

1955, 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, 1955 covers 103 countries on 3 measures. Bahrain is highest, at 234.02; Sweden is lowest, at 17.83. The middle country reads 101.77. Against 1954, 94 values changed (5 up, 89 down), 9 countries joined.

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Infant Mortality Rate · Data for 1955

HighestBahrain

234.02

LowestSweden

17.83

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, 1955, 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 103 countries · select a heading to sort

Infant Mortality Rate, 1955: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
derived
1BahrainBHRWestern Asia234.02177.60311.972
2NepalNPLSouthern Asia225.03192.30263.850
3CameroonCMRMiddle Africa216.22181.94255.476
4BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia208.45184.95235.988
5South SudanSSDEastern Africa206.83165.16266.315
6PakistanPAKSouthern Asia199.84174.80227.020
7LiberiaLBRWestern Africa192.63152.61244.265
8GuineaGINWestern Africa191.48166.81219.252
9EgyptEGYNorthern Africa191.38165.84220.604
10TürkiyeTURWestern Asia189.20166.04216.930
11IraqIRQWestern Asia184.11160.65211.433
12PeruPERSouth America180.28159.75203.100
13Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa178.64156.68202.731
14IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia169.42151.45188.458
15AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa167.30128.90211.403
16Papua New GuineaPNGMelanesia167.17149.24186.663
17BeninBENWestern Africa166.28150.73183.991
18TuvaluTUVPolynesia163.30131.17204.760
19IndiaINDSouthern Asia161.70140.43185.112
20KiribatiKIRMicronesia154.42138.10172.555
21EcuadorECUSouth America151.06109.28211.654
22LesothoLSOSouthern Africa148.19132.10167.591
23El SalvadorSLVCentral America146.70113.28187.088
24KenyaKENEastern Africa144.75128.88162.908
25BrazilBRASouth America144.06129.16161.764

02In 1955

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Bahrain234.02
  2. 2Nepal225.03
  3. 3Cameroon216.22
  4. 4Bangladesh208.45
  5. 5South Sudan206.83

Lowest

  1. 103Sweden17.83
  2. 102Iceland19.58
  3. 101Netherlands19.85
  4. 100Norway21.09
  5. 99Australia22.52

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 101.77. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestNepal192.30

    LowestSweden17.46

    Middle country: 86.70

  • Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestBahrain311.972

    LowestSweden18.200

    Middle country: 115.807

031954 → 1955

Since 1954

What changed between 1954 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +9 / −0countries joined / left
  • 94values changed, of 94 in both
  • 5 · 89rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Bahrain+ Ecuador+ Egypt+ Nicaragua+ Romania+ Sudan+ El Salvador+ Syria+ British Virgin Islands

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 1955.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 103 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) (1955). Infant Mortality Rate, 1955 [data set], describing 1955. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/infant-mortality/1955

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