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Infant Mortality Rate, 1988

1988, as UN IGME’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Infant Mortality Rate, 1988 covers 200 countries on 3 measures. South Sudan is highest, at 484.011; Japan is lowest, at 4.808. The middle country reads 39.857. Against 1987, 200 values changed (19 up, 181 down), the same countries are covered.

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Infant Mortality Rate · Data for 1988

HighestSouth Sudan

484.011

LowestJapan

4.808

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, 1988, 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, 1988: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
derived
1South SudanSSDEastern Africa484.011392.985579.35
2SudanSDNNorthern Africa180.865167.073195.92
3Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia177.683157.460200.89
4LiberiaLBRWestern Africa164.325150.236179.70
5AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia155.017140.460172.05
6NigerNERWestern Africa150.043139.507161.57
7MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa149.839136.816164.08
8GuineaGINWestern Africa140.113129.718151.21
9MalawiMWIEastern Africa138.370129.840147.49
10Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa135.881124.760147.52
11EthiopiaETHEastern Africa132.063122.395142.32
12MaliMLIWestern Africa129.449120.919138.36
13Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa127.317111.770144.20
14ChadTCDMiddle Africa119.895110.222130.39
15Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa119.235103.959134.26
16AngolaAGOMiddle Africa117.806103.327133.88
17PakistanPAKSouthern Asia116.619112.144121.35
18LaosLAOSouth-eastern Asia116.239105.873127.50
19NepalNPLSouthern Asia111.113103.941119.07
20UgandaUGAEastern Africa110.501103.239118.18
21Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa109.74098.063122.81
22TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa108.076101.142115.21
23SomaliaSOMEastern Africa107.67788.360131.59
24Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa104.91697.277112.69
25GambiaGMBWestern Africa104.82194.437116.54

02In 1988

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1South Sudan484.011
  2. 2Sudan180.865
  3. 3Timor-Leste177.683
  4. 4Liberia164.325
  5. 5Afghanistan155.017

Lowest

  1. 200Japan4.808
  2. 199Iceland5.541
  3. 198Finland5.891
  4. 197Sweden6.177
  5. 196Monaco6.919

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 39.857. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestSouth Sudan392.985

    LowestAndorra1.951

    Middle country: 35.038

  • Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestSouth Sudan579.35

    LowestJapan4.90

    Middle country: 44.72

031987 → 1988

Since 1987

What changed between 1987 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 200values changed, of 200 in both
  • 19 · 181rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Afghanistan176.857 → 155.017−21.840
  • Kosovo111.652 → 104.558−7.094
  • Nepal115.721 → 111.113−4.608
  • Egypt78.810 → 74.403−4.407
  • Bhutan108.147 → 103.795−4.353

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 1988.

  • 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) (1988). Infant Mortality Rate, 1988 [data set], describing 1988. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/infant-mortality/1988

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07Questions

Infant Mortality Rate, 1988: questions and answers

Which country has the highest infant mortality rate in Infant Mortality Rate, 1988?

South Sudan, at 484.011, of the 200 countries in the file.

What year does Infant Mortality Rate, 1988 describe?

1988.

How many countries does Infant Mortality Rate, 1988 cover?

200.

Where can I download Infant Mortality Rate, 1988?

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, 1988 the newest?

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

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