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Infant Mortality Rate, 1974

1974, 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, 1974 covers 168 countries on 3 measures. Afghanistan is highest, at 211.5616; Sweden is lowest, at 9.2845. The middle country reads 60.4444. Against 1973, 168 values changed (18 up, 150 down), the same countries are covered.

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Infant Mortality Rate · Data for 1974

HighestAfghanistan

211.5616

LowestSweden

9.2845

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, 1974, 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 168 countries · select a heading to sort

Infant Mortality Rate, 1974: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
derived
1AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia211.5616186.59241.1639
2YemenYEMWestern Asia198.4981182.43216.0954
3MaliMLIWestern Africa180.7199165.46197.1672
4GuineaGINWestern Africa174.4885157.06193.8713
5BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia174.3563164.59184.6576
6LiberiaLBRWestern Africa172.8005155.43191.8730
7BhutanBTNSouthern Asia168.9982135.53210.7406
8EthiopiaETHEastern Africa168.4277149.56189.6179
9NepalNPLSouthern Asia167.3960153.61182.6890
10South SudanSSDEastern Africa166.5656121.92227.8519
11MaldivesMDVSouthern Asia166.2790144.19191.2091
12MalawiMWIEastern Africa155.4438143.23168.9850
13HaitiHTICaribbean153.5523141.37167.3434
14NigerNERWestern Africa153.0999137.88169.9630
15MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa152.4731128.18181.9497
16Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa149.5539136.59164.2517
17Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa147.4358133.17162.2576
18EgyptEGYNorthern Africa146.1823137.97155.2834
19ComorosCOMEastern Africa145.8155122.55172.9616
20AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa143.8145131.22157.5726
21Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa141.2326128.79154.9314
22BoliviaBOLSouth America139.9665130.87150.0599
23GambiaGMBWestern Africa138.6551121.95157.9553
24ChadTCDMiddle Africa135.4656120.69151.6355
25OmanOMNWestern Asia134.3144116.58153.8264

02In 1974

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Afghanistan211.5616
  2. 2Yemen198.4981
  3. 3Mali180.7199
  4. 4Guinea174.4885
  5. 5Bangladesh174.3563

Lowest

  1. 168Sweden9.2845
  2. 167Japan10.6191
  3. 166Finland10.7737
  4. 165Netherlands10.8383
  5. 164Denmark10.8591

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 60.4444. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestAfghanistan186.59

    LowestSweden9.08

    Middle country: 53.82

  • Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestAfghanistan241.1639

    LowestSweden9.4949

    Middle country: 68.8897

031973 → 1974

Since 1973

What changed between 1973 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 168values changed, of 168 in both
  • 18 · 150rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Saudi Arabia138.6769 → 129.5411−9.1358
  • Maldives174.4683 → 166.2790−8.1893
  • Oman141.8454 → 134.3144−7.5310
  • Yemen205.3787 → 198.4981−6.8807
  • Iran132.9313 → 127.1787−5.7526

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 1974.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 168 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) (1974). Infant Mortality Rate, 1974 [data set], describing 1974. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/infant-mortality/1974

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