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Infant Mortality Rate, 1979

1979, as UN IGME’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Infant Mortality Rate, 1979 covers 180 countries on 3 measures. Afghanistan is highest, at 193.499; Sweden is lowest, at 7.392. The middle country reads 53.795. Against 1978, 179 values changed (8 up, 171 down), 1 country joined.

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Infant Mortality Rate · Data for 1979

HighestAfghanistan

193.499

LowestSweden

7.392

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, 1979, 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 180 countries · select a heading to sort

Infant Mortality Rate, 1979: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
derived
1AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia193.499172.5387219.2258
2GuineaGINWestern Africa163.320149.0711178.5564
3MaliMLIWestern Africa160.648148.7470173.6633
4YemenYEMWestern Asia159.894148.0239173.0842
5LiberiaLBRWestern Africa159.728143.5275177.3946
6South SudanSSDEastern Africa157.936123.1916202.6992
7MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa153.787135.3772174.9496
8NepalNPLSouthern Asia149.121138.0816161.0095
9EthiopiaETHEastern Africa147.943134.9512162.5205
10BhutanBTNSouthern Asia146.506120.6633176.8893
11NigerNERWestern Africa142.807130.6153155.5017
12Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa141.889128.3211156.7055
13CambodiaKHMSouth-eastern Asia139.889123.6191159.1217
14BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia136.507130.1615142.9151
15MalawiMWIEastern Africa135.964126.5475146.3770
16HaitiHTICaribbean134.441124.3085146.0186
17LaosLAOSouth-eastern Asia133.357115.0841153.9037
18ChadTCDMiddle Africa131.790119.3384146.1741
19ComorosCOMEastern Africa130.030114.3622149.2432
20GambiaGMBWestern Africa128.354113.1251147.6134
21PakistanPAKSouthern Asia128.133121.0252135.8788
22MaldivesMDVSouthern Asia128.046113.7661143.8321
23Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa126.706117.2110137.7049
24UgandaUGAEastern Africa126.072115.9599137.2327
25EgyptEGYNorthern Africa125.079118.4689131.8144

02In 1979

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Afghanistan193.499
  2. 2Guinea163.320
  3. 3Mali160.648
  4. 4Yemen159.894
  5. 5Liberia159.728

Lowest

  1. 180Sweden7.392
  2. 179Finland7.621
  3. 178Japan7.834
  4. 177Iceland8.306
  5. 176Norway8.395

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 53.795. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestAfghanistan172.5387

    LowestSweden7.2073

    Middle country: 45.9339

  • Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestAfghanistan219.2258

    LowestSweden7.5843

    Middle country: 63.9308

031978 → 1979

Since 1978

What changed between 1978 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +1 / −0countries joined / left
  • 179values changed, of 179 in both
  • 8 · 171rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Cambodia229.045 → 139.889−89.156
  • Yemen168.172 → 159.894−8.278
  • Oman102.346 → 94.315−8.032
  • Maldives134.943 → 128.046−6.897
  • Iran101.782 → 95.042−6.739
+ Uzbekistan

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 1979.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 180 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) (1979). Infant Mortality Rate, 1979 [data set], describing 1979. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/infant-mortality/1979

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07Questions

Infant Mortality Rate, 1979: questions and answers

Which country has the highest infant mortality rate in Infant Mortality Rate, 1979?

Afghanistan, at 193.499, of the 180 countries in the file.

What year does Infant Mortality Rate, 1979 describe?

1979.

How many countries does Infant Mortality Rate, 1979 cover?

180.

Where can I download Infant Mortality Rate, 1979?

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, 1979 the newest?

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

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