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Infant Mortality Rate, 1985

1985, as UN IGME’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Infant Mortality Rate, 1985 covers 200 countries on 3 measures. Afghanistan is highest, at 201.6639; Japan is lowest, at 5.4922. The middle country reads 44.2452. Against 1984, 192 values changed (12 up, 180 down), 8 countries joined.

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Infant Mortality Rate · Data for 1985

HighestAfghanistan

201.6639

LowestJapan

5.4922

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, 1985, 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 200 countries · select a heading to sort

Infant Mortality Rate, 1985: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
derived
1AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia201.6639181.603227.0531
2Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia200.4689169.243239.5347
3EthiopiaETHEastern Africa186.1052171.843201.5627
4LiberiaLBRWestern Africa154.7225140.636170.0009
5MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa152.8077138.284169.2201
6South SudanSSDEastern Africa150.5808121.045184.2788
7GuineaGINWestern Africa147.7953136.550160.0022
8NigerNERWestern Africa147.5290136.829159.5064
9EritreaERIEastern Africa144.4100129.838160.7862
10MaliMLIWestern Africa138.2208128.892148.1864
11Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa137.4911125.003150.4089
12MalawiMWIEastern Africa134.5718126.089143.9587
13Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa132.5871109.137158.0121
14KosovoXKXSouthern Europe127.834379.709214.8618
15NepalNPLSouthern Asia124.6196116.159133.7397
16ChadTCDMiddle Africa124.4276113.984136.2242
17LaosLAOSouth-eastern Asia122.6559110.581135.6496
18Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa122.4391105.066140.0277
19PakistanPAKSouthern Asia121.7265116.566127.1496
20AngolaAGOMiddle Africa118.4791100.877138.7242
21BhutanBTNSouthern Asia117.338199.635138.6350
22UgandaUGAEastern Africa116.5863108.356125.3596
23BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia115.5767111.624119.7358
24YemenYEMWestern Asia115.5376107.438124.1270
25HaitiHTICaribbean113.5949105.191122.9118

02In 1985

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Afghanistan201.6639
  2. 2Timor-Leste200.4689
  3. 3Ethiopia186.1052
  4. 4Liberia154.7225
  5. 5Mozambique152.8077

Lowest

  1. 200Japan5.4922
  2. 199Finland6.0850
  3. 198Iceland6.1629
  4. 197Sweden6.4275
  5. 196Switzerland7.2564

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 44.2452. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestAfghanistan181.603

    LowestAndorra1.586

    Middle country: 38.189

  • Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestTimor-Leste239.5347

    LowestJapan5.5978

    Middle country: 50.5955

031984 → 1985

Since 1984

What changed between 1984 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +8 / −0countries joined / left
  • 192values changed, of 192 in both
  • 12 · 180rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Algeria64.2807 → 55.4997−8.7809
  • Egypt96.1878 → 89.8182−6.3696
  • Ethiopia192.3936 → 186.1052−6.2884
  • Oman57.9953 → 52.1601−5.8351
  • Yemen121.3354 → 115.5376−5.7978
+ Anguilla+ Andorra+ Guinea-Bissau+ Monaco+ Nauru+ San Marino+ Timor-Leste+ Kosovo

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 1985.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 200 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) (1985). Infant Mortality Rate, 1985 [data set], describing 1985. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/infant-mortality/1985

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07Questions

Infant Mortality Rate, 1985: questions and answers

Which country has the highest infant mortality rate in Infant Mortality Rate, 1985?

Afghanistan, at 201.6639, of the 200 countries in the file.

What year does Infant Mortality Rate, 1985 describe?

1985.

How many countries does Infant Mortality Rate, 1985 cover?

200.

Where can I download Infant Mortality Rate, 1985?

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, 1985 the newest?

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

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