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Infant Mortality Rate, 1987

1987, 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, 1987 covers 200 countries on 3 measures. Timor-Leste is highest, at 181.037; Japan is lowest, at 4.986. The middle country reads 41.872. Against 1986, 200 values changed (15 up, 185 down), the same countries are covered.

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Infant Mortality Rate · Data for 1987

HighestTimor-Leste

181.037

LowestJapan

4.986

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, 1987, 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, 1987: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
derived
1Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia181.037158.699207.59
2AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia176.857159.813197.33
3South SudanSSDEastern Africa171.218138.761206.68
4LiberiaLBRWestern Africa160.519146.410175.57
5MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa150.778137.392165.62
6NigerNERWestern Africa149.912139.282161.56
7GuineaGINWestern Africa142.753132.174154.19
8MalawiMWIEastern Africa138.339129.719147.72
9Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa136.383124.814148.38
10EthiopiaETHEastern Africa134.307124.271144.89
11MaliMLIWestern Africa132.163123.428141.40
12Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa129.061111.619147.81
13ChadTCDMiddle Africa121.458111.491132.31
14Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa119.893104.363135.55
15LaosLAOSouth-eastern Asia118.577107.727130.19
16PakistanPAKSouthern Asia118.392113.705123.32
17AngolaAGOMiddle Africa117.814102.647135.02
18NepalNPLSouthern Asia115.721108.102124.16
19UgandaUGAEastern Africa112.205104.651120.06
20KosovoXKXSouthern Europe111.65277.081169.64
21Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa110.05198.195123.18
22TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa108.846101.772116.08
23BhutanBTNSouthern Asia108.14792.258127.82
24BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia107.888104.158111.66
25SomaliaSOMEastern Africa107.65787.359133.06

02In 1987

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Timor-Leste181.037
  2. 2Afghanistan176.857
  3. 3South Sudan171.218
  4. 4Liberia160.519
  5. 5Mozambique150.778

Lowest

  1. 200Japan4.986
  2. 199Iceland5.730
  3. 198Finland5.971
  4. 197Sweden6.267
  5. 196Switzerland7.060

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 41.872. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestAfghanistan159.813

    LowestAndorra1.820

    Middle country: 36.927

  • Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestTimor-Leste207.59

    LowestJapan5.08

    Middle country: 46.82

031986 → 1987

Since 1986

What changed between 1986 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 200values changed, of 200 in both
  • 15 · 185rose · 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 1987.

  • 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) (1987). Infant Mortality Rate, 1987 [data set], describing 1987. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/infant-mortality/1987

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