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Infant Mortality Rate, 1970

1970, as UN IGME’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Infant Mortality Rate, 1970 covers 158 countries on 3 measures. Yemen is highest, at 225.849; Sweden is lowest, at 11.335. The middle country reads 67.007. Against 1969, 158 values changed (12 up, 146 down), the same countries are covered.

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Infant Mortality Rate · Data for 1970

HighestYemen

225.849

LowestSweden

11.335

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, 1970, 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 158 countries · select a heading to sort

Infant Mortality Rate, 1970: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
derived
1YemenYEMWestern Asia225.849205.58247.8881
2AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia223.825197.05254.7022
3South SudanSSDEastern Africa208.371146.81296.2444
4NigeriaNGAWestern Africa206.582184.05232.4199
5MaldivesMDVSouthern Asia196.496166.55231.5242
6MaliMLIWestern Africa193.764174.98214.1499
7BhutanBTNSouthern Asia184.647142.82238.5913
8LiberiaLBRWestern Africa184.527165.31205.9310
9NepalNPLSouthern Asia181.705164.57200.4870
10GuineaGINWestern Africa180.748159.70205.1695
11HaitiHTICaribbean167.999153.23184.3770
12MalawiMWIEastern Africa165.115150.59181.5701
13OmanOMNWestern Asia164.550140.82190.6663
14BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia164.417154.22175.1271
15Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa162.354146.75179.5132
16Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa160.078144.26177.9041
17AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa158.858141.74178.6382
18BoliviaBOLSouth America155.387144.05167.8828
19Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa152.509138.31167.8776
20MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa151.753122.94188.4392
21NigerNERWestern Africa150.304132.47170.5394
22EgyptEGYNorthern Africa150.050140.59159.9578
23GambiaGMBWestern Africa145.647128.53164.9848
24EthiopiaETHEastern Africa144.733122.08170.0295
25LesothoLSOSouthern Africa141.817128.71156.4613

02In 1970

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Yemen225.849
  2. 2Afghanistan223.825
  3. 3South Sudan208.371
  4. 4Nigeria206.582
  5. 5Maldives196.496

Lowest

  1. 158Sweden11.335
  2. 157Netherlands12.554
  3. 156Iceland12.900
  4. 155Norway13.103
  5. 154Finland13.247

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 67.007. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestYemen205.58

    LowestSweden11.10

    Middle country: 57.57

  • Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestSouth Sudan296.2444

    LowestSweden11.5826

    Middle country: 76.1579

031969 → 1970

Since 1969

What changed between 1969 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 158values changed, of 158 in both
  • 12 · 146rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

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 1970.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 158 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) (1970). Infant Mortality Rate, 1970 [data set], describing 1970. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/infant-mortality/1970

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07Questions

Infant Mortality Rate, 1970: questions and answers

Which country has the highest infant mortality rate in Infant Mortality Rate, 1970?

Yemen, at 225.849, of the 158 countries in the file.

What year does Infant Mortality Rate, 1970 describe?

1970.

How many countries does Infant Mortality Rate, 1970 cover?

158.

Where can I download Infant Mortality Rate, 1970?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Infant Mortality Rate, 1970 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Infant Mortality Rate, 2024.

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