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Infant Mortality Rate, 1964

1964, 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, 1964 covers 140 countries on 3 measures. Yemen is highest, at 263.786; Sweden is lowest, at 14.381. The middle country reads 84.754. Against 1963, 138 values changed (6 up, 132 down), 2 countries joined.

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Infant Mortality Rate · Data for 1964

HighestYemen

263.786

LowestSweden

14.381

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, 1964, 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 140 countries · select a heading to sort

Infant Mortality Rate, 1964: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
derived
1YemenYEMWestern Asia263.786233.8307296.89
2AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia240.625211.1671274.52
3MaldivesMDVSouthern Asia230.370183.1346290.35
4OmanOMNWestern Asia208.112173.5079250.27
5NepalNPLSouthern Asia207.044184.7489232.33
6LiberiaLBRWestern Africa197.704177.1061222.78
7Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa189.461167.5812214.02
8GuineaGINWestern Africa187.646161.8472218.81
9South SudanSSDEastern Africa187.459133.8772267.72
10HaitiHTICaribbean185.348165.4028208.26
11BoliviaBOLSouth America175.423157.6421194.77
12NigeriaNGAWestern Africa171.718145.7218204.29
13Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa166.240144.7852189.52
14MalawiMWIEastern Africa164.692137.8652197.03
15AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa161.703142.4630185.53
16Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa161.219147.5350175.92
17TürkiyeTURWestern Asia161.172148.9499174.79
18CameroonCMRMiddle Africa159.736141.6363180.21
19BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia158.563147.0968170.83
20EgyptEGYNorthern Africa157.359144.8876170.55
21GambiaGMBWestern Africa152.815135.2116172.76
22BeninBENWestern Africa150.791137.6828166.19
23LibyaLBYNorthern Africa150.620130.6526172.90
24PakistanPAKSouthern Asia149.697136.8620163.37
25TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa149.609130.1749172.04

02In 1964

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Yemen263.786
  2. 2Afghanistan240.625
  3. 3Maldives230.370
  4. 4Oman208.112
  5. 5Nepal207.044

Lowest

  1. 140Sweden14.381
  2. 139Netherlands14.843
  3. 138Iceland15.930
  4. 137Norway16.567
  5. 136Finland17.461

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 84.754. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestYemen233.8307

    LowestSweden14.1007

    Middle country: 72.9174

  • Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestYemen296.89

    LowestSweden14.66

    Middle country: 95.33

031963 → 1964

Since 1963

What changed between 1963 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +2 / −0countries joined / left
  • 138values changed, of 138 in both
  • 6 · 132rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Nigeria+ Vietnam

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 1964.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 140 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) (1964). Infant Mortality Rate, 1964 [data set], describing 1964. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/infant-mortality/1964

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