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Infant Mortality Rate, 1990

1990, as UN IGME’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Infant Mortality Rate, 1990 covers 200 countries on 3 measures. Liberia is highest, at 170.855; Japan is lowest, at 4.584. The middle country reads 37.342. Against 1989, 200 values changed (19 up, 181 down), the same countries are covered.

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Infant Mortality Rate · Data for 1990

HighestLiberia

170.855

LowestJapan

4.584

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, 1990, 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, 1990: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
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1LiberiaLBRWestern Africa170.855155.766186.6504
2Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia165.507148.628184.7022
3South SudanSSDEastern Africa157.352128.859185.4718
4MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa147.977135.613161.4903
5NigerNERWestern Africa147.702137.721158.9673
6AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia145.887132.627160.5116
7Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa135.354125.118146.1115
8GuineaGINWestern Africa134.457124.527144.7566
9MalawiMWIEastern Africa134.010126.041142.6529
10EthiopiaETHEastern Africa127.219118.071136.9708
11MaliMLIWestern Africa124.726116.675133.2006
12Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa123.886110.411138.0401
13Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa118.210104.152132.5603
14AngolaAGOMiddle Africa118.128104.663133.5838
15ChadTCDMiddle Africa116.798107.560126.6578
16PakistanPAKSouthern Asia112.966108.780117.4842
17LaosLAOSouth-eastern Asia111.036101.565121.3817
18Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa109.02997.713121.6063
19UgandaUGAEastern Africa107.079100.108114.4967
20SomaliaSOMEastern Africa106.29287.418130.6701
21TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa106.16799.252113.2536
22NigeriaNGAWestern Africa104.66197.577111.9102
23Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa102.81195.451110.3715
24ZambiaZMBEastern Africa102.28995.534109.6440
25NepalNPLSouthern Asia101.76095.247108.7764

02In 1990

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Liberia170.855
  2. 2Timor-Leste165.507
  3. 3South Sudan157.352
  4. 4Mozambique147.977
  5. 5Niger147.702

Lowest

  1. 200Japan4.584
  2. 199Iceland5.164
  3. 198Finland5.580
  4. 197Sweden5.863
  5. 196Singapore6.132

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 37.342. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestLiberia155.766

    LowestAndorra2.240

    Middle country: 32.338

  • Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestLiberia186.6504

    LowestJapan4.6721

    Middle country: 41.4679

031989 → 1990

Since 1989

What changed between 1989 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

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 1990.

  • 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) (1990). Infant Mortality Rate, 1990 [data set], describing 1990. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/infant-mortality/1990

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07Questions

Infant Mortality Rate, 1990: questions and answers

Which country has the highest infant mortality rate in Infant Mortality Rate, 1990?

Liberia, at 170.855, of the 200 countries in the file.

What year does Infant Mortality Rate, 1990 describe?

1990.

How many countries does Infant Mortality Rate, 1990 cover?

200.

Where can I download Infant Mortality Rate, 1990?

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, 1990 the newest?

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

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