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Infant Mortality Rate, 1992

1992, as UN IGME’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Infant Mortality Rate, 1992 covers 200 countries on 3 measures. Somalia is highest, at 223.230; Japan is lowest, at 4.443. The middle country reads 34.737. Against 1991, 200 values changed (32 up, 168 down), the same countries are covered.

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Infant Mortality Rate · Data for 1992

HighestSomalia

223.230

LowestJapan

4.443

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, 1992, 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, 1992: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
derived
1SomaliaSOMEastern Africa223.230177.6912287.388
2LiberiaLBRWestern Africa171.926157.0335187.916
3South SudanSSDEastern Africa165.486135.9804193.483
4Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia153.486138.8095169.871
5MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa145.290133.4434158.273
6NigerNERWestern Africa142.492132.8611153.491
7AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia137.156125.1560149.911
8Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa134.791125.1664145.059
9GuineaGINWestern Africa127.680118.4783137.340
10MalawiMWIEastern Africa126.406119.0169134.291
11EthiopiaETHEastern Africa121.334112.5570130.541
12MaliMLIWestern Africa120.817113.2027128.820
13Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa119.984107.9647133.021
14AngolaAGOMiddle Africa118.969105.9179133.809
15Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa117.280104.7314131.442
16ChadTCDMiddle Africa113.607104.8173123.064
17PakistanPAKSouthern Asia108.894104.9222113.318
18Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa107.68396.8383119.575
19LaosLAOSouth-eastern Asia105.31596.7008114.933
20NigeriaNGAWestern Africa104.70198.0258111.754
21TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa104.35497.6190111.217
22UgandaUGAEastern Africa102.63496.0170109.547
23ZambiaZMBEastern Africa102.36195.5897109.492
24Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa102.10395.0169109.507
25RwandaRWAEastern Africa101.47595.0318108.507

02In 1992

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Somalia223.230
  2. 2Liberia171.926
  3. 3South Sudan165.486
  4. 4Timor-Leste153.486
  5. 5Mozambique145.290

Lowest

  1. 200Japan4.443
  2. 199Iceland4.767
  3. 198Singapore5.014
  4. 197Finland5.064
  5. 196Sweden5.171

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 34.737. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestSomalia177.6912

    LowestAndorra2.5449

    Middle country: 30.4418

  • Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestSomalia287.388

    LowestJapan4.529

    Middle country: 38.151

031991 → 1992

Since 1991

What changed between 1991 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 200values changed, of 200 in both
  • 32 · 168rose · 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 1992.

  • 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) (1992). Infant Mortality Rate, 1992 [data set], describing 1992. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/infant-mortality/1992

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07Questions

Infant Mortality Rate, 1992: questions and answers

Which country has the highest infant mortality rate in Infant Mortality Rate, 1992?

Somalia, at 223.230, of the 200 countries in the file.

What year does Infant Mortality Rate, 1992 describe?

1992.

How many countries does Infant Mortality Rate, 1992 cover?

200.

Where can I download Infant Mortality Rate, 1992?

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, 1992 the newest?

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

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