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Infant Mortality Rate, 1986

1986, as UN IGME’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Infant Mortality Rate, 1986 covers 200 countries on 3 measures. Timor-Leste is highest, at 193.802; Japan is lowest, at 5.215. The middle country reads 43.098. Against 1985, 200 values changed (13 up, 187 down), the same countries are covered.

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Infant Mortality Rate · Data for 1986

HighestTimor-Leste

193.802

LowestJapan

5.215

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, 1986, 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, 1986: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
derived
1Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia193.802166.9683226.105
2EthiopiaETHEastern Africa182.513168.6768197.207
3AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia181.267163.6100203.507
4LiberiaLBRWestern Africa157.159143.1177172.170
5MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa151.726137.7661167.379
6South SudanSSDEastern Africa149.497120.8639181.978
7NigerNERWestern Africa149.076138.4454160.973
8GuineaGINWestern Africa145.276134.3915157.052
9MalawiMWIEastern Africa137.064128.4195146.502
10Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa136.942124.9657149.443
11MaliMLIWestern Africa135.042125.9945144.620
12Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa130.831110.8256152.425
13ChadTCDMiddle Africa122.983112.7560134.185
14Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa121.001104.8321137.492
15LaosLAOSouth-eastern Asia120.628109.2346132.878
16NepalNPLSouthern Asia120.232112.1361129.076
17PakistanPAKSouthern Asia120.109115.2719125.297
18KosovoXKXSouthern Europe119.39978.3292190.679
19AngolaAGOMiddle Africa117.964101.7021136.560
20UgandaUGAEastern Africa114.170106.3264122.459
21BhutanBTNSouthern Asia112.66495.9133133.001
22BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia111.775107.9565115.718
23YemenYEMWestern Asia110.584102.9103118.732
24HaitiHTICaribbean110.400102.2834119.292
25GambiaGMBWestern Africa110.33398.7884123.851

02In 1986

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Timor-Leste193.802
  2. 2Ethiopia182.513
  3. 3Afghanistan181.267
  4. 4Liberia157.159
  5. 5Mozambique151.726

Lowest

  1. 200Japan5.215
  2. 199Iceland5.936
  3. 198Finland6.027
  4. 197Sweden6.347
  5. 196Switzerland7.153

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 43.098. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestEthiopia168.6768

    LowestAndorra1.6954

    Middle country: 38.0976

  • Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestTimor-Leste226.105

    LowestJapan5.314

    Middle country: 48.791

031985 → 1986

Since 1985

What changed between 1985 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 200values changed, of 200 in both
  • 13 · 187rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

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 1986.

  • 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) (1986). Infant Mortality Rate, 1986 [data set], describing 1986. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/infant-mortality/1986

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07Questions

Infant Mortality Rate, 1986: questions and answers

Which country has the highest infant mortality rate in Infant Mortality Rate, 1986?

Timor-Leste, at 193.802, of the 200 countries in the file.

What year does Infant Mortality Rate, 1986 describe?

1986.

How many countries does Infant Mortality Rate, 1986 cover?

200.

Where can I download Infant Mortality Rate, 1986?

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, 1986 the newest?

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

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