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Infant Mortality Rate, 1983

1983, as UN IGME’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Infant Mortality Rate, 1983 covers 189 countries on 3 measures. Ethiopia is highest, at 195.5761; Japan is lowest, at 6.1679. The middle country reads 48.1360. Against 1982, 187 values changed (10 up, 177 down), 2 countries joined.

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Infant Mortality Rate · Data for 1983

HighestEthiopia

195.5761

LowestJapan

6.1679

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, 1983, 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 189 countries · select a heading to sort

Infant Mortality Rate, 1983: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
derived
1EthiopiaETHEastern Africa195.5761179.876212.809
2AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia195.0217174.916220.908
3MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa154.7175138.850172.506
4LiberiaLBRWestern Africa153.2705138.514169.367
5GuineaGINWestern Africa152.9258140.773166.005
6South SudanSSDEastern Africa152.8589122.108189.380
7EritreaERIEastern Africa147.8203132.103165.539
8MaliMLIWestern Africa145.2281135.308156.111
9NigerNERWestern Africa143.3798132.431155.327
10Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa138.6501125.605152.279
11MadagascarMDGEastern Africa136.0853125.625147.815
12NepalNPLSouthern Asia132.8921123.693143.031
13MalawiMWIEastern Africa129.5111120.914139.012
14YemenYEMWestern Asia128.0330118.874137.910
15ChadTCDMiddle Africa127.2663116.172139.990
16BhutanBTNSouthern Asia126.8193107.096150.293
17Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa126.4600104.560146.933
18LaosLAOSouth-eastern Asia126.3088112.795140.972
19PakistanPAKSouthern Asia124.5494118.771130.776
20UgandaUGAEastern Africa123.1049114.130132.684
21BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia122.8132118.283127.510
22AngolaAGOMiddle Africa120.229399.189145.171
23HaitiHTICaribbean120.1863111.267130.295
24GambiaGMBWestern Africa118.7395105.552135.331
25ComorosCOMEastern Africa116.2736102.852132.474

02In 1983

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Ethiopia195.5761
  2. 2Afghanistan195.0217
  3. 3Mozambique154.7175
  4. 4Liberia153.2705
  5. 5Guinea152.9258

Lowest

  1. 189Japan6.1679
  2. 188Finland6.3085
  3. 187Sweden6.6318
  4. 186Iceland6.7086
  5. 185Switzerland7.5639

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 48.1360. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestEthiopia179.876

    LowestJapan6.052

    Middle country: 40.898

  • Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestAfghanistan220.908

    LowestJapan6.288

    Middle country: 54.864

031982 → 1983

Since 1982

What changed between 1982 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +2 / −0countries joined / left
  • 187values changed, of 187 in both
  • 10 · 177rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

  • Eritrea92.3325 → 147.8203+55.4878
  • Ethiopia144.8699 → 195.5761+50.7061
  • Sudan89.6350 → 111.2472+21.6121
  • Eswatini81.4444 → 83.6627+2.2182
  • Zambia85.2404 → 87.0128+1.7724

Fell most

+ Somalia+ Suriname

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 1983.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 189 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) (1983). Infant Mortality Rate, 1983 [data set], describing 1983. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/infant-mortality/1983

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07Questions

Infant Mortality Rate, 1983: questions and answers

Which country has the highest infant mortality rate in Infant Mortality Rate, 1983?

Ethiopia, at 195.5761, of the 189 countries in the file.

What year does Infant Mortality Rate, 1983 describe?

1983.

How many countries does Infant Mortality Rate, 1983 cover?

189.

Where can I download Infant Mortality Rate, 1983?

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, 1983 the newest?

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

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