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Infant Mortality Rate, 1977

1977, as UN IGME’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Infant Mortality Rate, 1977 covers 175 countries on 3 measures. Cambodia is highest, at 244.076; Sweden is lowest, at 7.973. The middle country reads 56.400. Against 1976, 174 values changed (11 up, 163 down), 1 country joined.

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Infant Mortality Rate · Data for 1977

HighestCambodia

244.076

LowestSweden

7.973

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, 1977, 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 175 countries · select a heading to sort

Infant Mortality Rate, 1977: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
derived
1CambodiaKHMSouth-eastern Asia244.076211.905280.828
2AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia201.097178.404227.986
3YemenYEMWestern Asia176.283162.973191.261
4MaliMLIWestern Africa168.776155.599182.983
5GuineaGINWestern Africa168.409153.027185.136
6LiberiaLBRWestern Africa164.617147.902182.393
7South SudanSSDEastern Africa161.454122.562212.967
8NepalNPLSouthern Asia156.817144.778169.963
9BhutanBTNSouthern Asia155.703127.063190.145
10MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa152.938132.183177.276
11EthiopiaETHEastern Africa147.977134.179163.589
12NigerNERWestern Africa147.753134.331161.752
13MalawiMWIEastern Africa144.205133.944155.613
14Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa144.016130.168158.793
15BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia142.500135.226150.128
16MaldivesMDVSouthern Asia142.132125.043160.974
17HaitiHTICaribbean141.908131.099154.248
18ComorosCOMEastern Africa136.730118.892158.267
19Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa135.171124.539147.069
20EgyptEGYNorthern Africa134.604127.351142.172
21ChadTCDMiddle Africa133.359120.185148.437
22GambiaGMBWestern Africa132.498116.593152.066
23RwandaRWAEastern Africa131.688122.075142.426
24PakistanPAKSouthern Asia129.347121.397137.681
25BoliviaBOLSouth America128.198120.353136.970

02In 1977

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Cambodia244.076
  2. 2Afghanistan201.097
  3. 3Yemen176.283
  4. 4Mali168.776
  5. 5Guinea168.409

Lowest

  1. 175Sweden7.973
  2. 174Finland8.777
  3. 173Japan8.840
  4. 172Denmark9.150
  5. 171Norway9.285

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 56.400. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestCambodia211.905

    LowestSweden7.774

    Middle country: 50.578

  • Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestCambodia280.828

    LowestSweden8.174

    Middle country: 64.400

031976 → 1977

Since 1976

What changed between 1976 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +1 / −0countries joined / left
  • 174values changed, of 174 in both
  • 11 · 163rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Lebanon112.353 → 59.263−53.090
  • Guatemala112.085 → 98.963−13.123
  • Cambodia253.146 → 244.076−9.070
  • Oman118.562 → 110.444−8.118
  • Yemen184.188 → 176.283−7.905
+ Turkmenistan

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 1977.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 175 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) (1977). Infant Mortality Rate, 1977 [data set], describing 1977. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/infant-mortality/1977

0672 held

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07Questions

Infant Mortality Rate, 1977: questions and answers

Which country has the highest infant mortality rate in Infant Mortality Rate, 1977?

Cambodia, at 244.076, of the 175 countries in the file.

What year does Infant Mortality Rate, 1977 describe?

1977.

How many countries does Infant Mortality Rate, 1977 cover?

175.

Where can I download Infant Mortality Rate, 1977?

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, 1977 the newest?

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

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