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Infant Mortality Rate, 1957

1957, 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, 1957 covers 116 countries on 3 measures. Afghanistan is highest, at 262.363; Sweden is lowest, at 17.070. The middle country reads 99.130. Against 1956, 113 values changed (5 up, 108 down), 3 countries joined.

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Infant Mortality Rate · Data for 1957

HighestAfghanistan

262.363

LowestSweden

17.070

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, 1957, 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 116 countries · select a heading to sort

Infant Mortality Rate, 1957: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
derived
1AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia262.363208.91327.61
2LibyaLBYNorthern Africa232.930178.58305.16
3Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa226.011191.53267.36
4NepalNPLSouthern Asia223.662193.57258.65
5South SudanSSDEastern Africa202.374160.86262.06
6BahrainBHRWestern Asia201.024164.16248.35
7CameroonCMRMiddle Africa198.458169.50230.82
8BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia195.352175.66218.38
9LiberiaLBRWestern Africa194.970165.63231.30
10GuineaGINWestern Africa191.812165.92221.64
11TürkiyeTURWestern Asia186.498167.53209.37
12PakistanPAKSouthern Asia185.958164.83208.90
13EgyptEGYNorthern Africa184.050163.50206.78
14Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa175.730152.85200.24
15Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa169.030142.81201.14
16PeruPERSouth America168.079151.28186.96
17GuatemalaGTMCentral America166.582137.90197.46
18AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa164.785135.73197.27
19BeninBENWestern Africa164.107149.12181.47
20IraqIRQWestern Asia163.693142.97187.89
21GambiaGMBWestern Africa160.620130.49194.91
22IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia159.605144.59175.65
23Papua New GuineaPNGMelanesia158.774143.52175.71
24IndiaINDSouthern Asia156.907139.71175.13
25MoroccoMARNorthern Africa156.822135.91181.92

02In 1957

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Afghanistan262.363
  2. 2Libya232.930
  3. 3Côte d’Ivoire226.011
  4. 4Nepal223.662
  5. 5South Sudan202.374

Lowest

  1. 116Sweden17.070
  2. 115Netherlands18.198
  3. 114Iceland18.391
  4. 113Norway20.038
  5. 112Australia21.594

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 99.130. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestAfghanistan208.91

    LowestSweden16.74

    Middle country: 88.78

  • Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestAfghanistan327.61

    LowestSweden17.41

    Middle country: 116.03

031956 → 1957

Since 1956

What changed between 1956 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +3 / −0countries joined / left
  • 113values changed, of 113 in both
  • 5 · 108rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Bahrain216.670 → 201.024−15.646
  • Libya247.909 → 232.930−14.979
  • Mauritius89.826 → 77.342−12.484
  • Barbados102.090 → 92.182−9.908
  • Iraq173.532 → 163.693−9.839
+ Afghanistan+ Guatemala+ Morocco

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 1957.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 116 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) (1957). Infant Mortality Rate, 1957 [data set], describing 1957. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/infant-mortality/1957

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