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Infant Mortality Rate, 1978

1978, as UN IGME’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Infant Mortality Rate, 1978 covers 179 countries on 3 measures. Cambodia is highest, at 229.0454; Sweden is lowest, at 7.6634. The middle country reads 54.8152. Against 1977, 175 values changed (8 up, 167 down), 4 countries joined.

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Infant Mortality Rate · Data for 1978

HighestCambodia

229.0454

LowestSweden

7.6634

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, 1978, 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 179 countries · select a heading to sort

Infant Mortality Rate, 1978: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
derived
1CambodiaKHMSouth-eastern Asia229.0454200.902262.31
2AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia197.2396175.691223.64
3YemenYEMWestern Asia168.1716155.569182.09
4GuineaGINWestern Africa165.8771151.079181.94
5MaliMLIWestern Africa164.6715152.132178.22
6LiberiaLBRWestern Africa162.0786145.552179.83
7South SudanSSDEastern Africa159.6630122.937207.89
8MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa153.3291133.744175.84
9NepalNPLSouthern Asia153.0735141.421165.59
10BhutanBTNSouthern Asia151.2483123.905183.38
11EthiopiaETHEastern Africa148.2896134.732163.18
12NigerNERWestern Africa145.0692132.162158.36
13Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa142.9203129.077157.62
14MalawiMWIEastern Africa140.0951130.199150.97
15BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia139.6894132.792146.69
16HaitiHTICaribbean138.1649127.649150.10
17LaosLAOSouth-eastern Asia135.1062114.775158.01
18MaldivesMDVSouthern Asia134.9432119.234152.26
19ComorosCOMEastern Africa133.4214116.720153.66
20ChadTCDMiddle Africa132.6274119.840147.50
21Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa130.6538120.528142.06
22GambiaGMBWestern Africa130.3786114.811149.80
23EgyptEGYNorthern Africa129.9003122.981137.19
24RwandaRWAEastern Africa129.7025120.195140.63
25PakistanPAKSouthern Asia128.8001121.207136.72

02In 1978

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Cambodia229.0454
  2. 2Afghanistan197.2396
  3. 3Yemen168.1716
  4. 4Guinea165.8771
  5. 5Mali164.6715

Lowest

  1. 179Sweden7.6634
  2. 178Finland8.1620
  3. 177Japan8.3162
  4. 176Denmark8.7550
  5. 175Norway8.7918

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 54.8152. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestCambodia200.902

    LowestSweden7.468

    Middle country: 48.437

  • Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestCambodia262.31

    LowestSweden7.87

    Middle country: 65.58

031977 → 1978

Since 1977

What changed between 1977 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +4 / −0countries joined / left
  • 175values changed, of 175 in both
  • 8 · 167rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Cambodia244.0763 → 229.0454−15.0309
  • Yemen176.2833 → 168.1716−8.1118
  • Oman110.4437 → 102.3464−8.0973
  • Maldives142.1319 → 134.9432−7.1887
  • Saudi Arabia105.7453 → 98.8173−6.9280
+ Albania+ Djibouti+ Kyrgyzstan+ Laos

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 1978.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 179 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) (1978). Infant Mortality Rate, 1978 [data set], describing 1978. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/infant-mortality/1978

0672 held

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07Questions

Infant Mortality Rate, 1978: questions and answers

Which country has the highest infant mortality rate in Infant Mortality Rate, 1978?

Cambodia, at 229.0454, of the 179 countries in the file.

What year does Infant Mortality Rate, 1978 describe?

1978.

How many countries does Infant Mortality Rate, 1978 cover?

179.

Where can I download Infant Mortality Rate, 1978?

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, 1978 the newest?

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

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