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Infant Mortality Rate, 1984

1984, 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, 1984 covers 192 countries on 3 measures. Afghanistan is highest, at 206.622; Japan is lowest, at 5.812. The middle country reads 45.312. Against 1983, 189 values changed (9 up, 180 down), 3 countries joined.

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Infant Mortality Rate · Data for 1984

HighestAfghanistan

206.622

LowestJapan

5.812

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, 1984, 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 192 countries · select a heading to sort

Infant Mortality Rate, 1984: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
derived
1AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia206.622185.506233.523
2EthiopiaETHEastern Africa192.394177.386208.901
3MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa153.848138.735171.190
4LiberiaLBRWestern Africa153.397138.861169.081
5South SudanSSDEastern Africa151.757121.472186.797
6GuineaGINWestern Africa150.409138.561162.976
7EritreaERIEastern Africa146.252131.096163.375
8NigerNERWestern Africa145.457134.572157.342
9MaliMLIWestern Africa141.617132.136152.117
10Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa138.062125.347151.343
11MalawiMWIEastern Africa131.695123.315141.053
12NepalNPLSouthern Asia128.811119.991138.403
13ChadTCDMiddle Africa125.897115.109138.160
14LaosLAOSouth-eastern Asia124.583111.832138.411
15Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa124.242104.952142.740
16PakistanPAKSouthern Asia123.203117.783128.995
17BhutanBTNSouthern Asia121.991103.297144.312
18YemenYEMWestern Asia121.335112.758130.439
19UgandaUGAEastern Africa119.731111.309128.775
20BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia119.241114.972123.696
21AngolaAGOMiddle Africa119.14399.973141.681
22HaitiHTICaribbean116.875108.158126.559
23GambiaGMBWestern Africa116.028103.397131.585
24Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa113.403105.143122.054
25ComorosCOMEastern Africa112.90599.899128.367

02In 1984

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Afghanistan206.622
  2. 2Ethiopia192.394
  3. 3Mozambique153.848
  4. 4Liberia153.397
  5. 5South Sudan151.757

Lowest

  1. 192Japan5.812
  2. 191Finland6.172
  3. 190Iceland6.419
  4. 189Sweden6.520
  5. 188Switzerland7.391

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 45.312. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestAfghanistan185.506

    LowestJapan5.707

    Middle country: 39.016

  • Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestAfghanistan233.523

    LowestJapan5.923

    Middle country: 51.781

031983 → 1984

Since 1983

What changed between 1983 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +3 / −0countries joined / left
  • 189values changed, of 189 in both
  • 9 · 180rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Bosnia and Herzegovina+ Montenegro+ Serbia

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 1984.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 192 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) (1984). Infant Mortality Rate, 1984 [data set], describing 1984. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/infant-mortality/1984

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