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Infant Mortality Rate, 1996

1996, 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, 1996 covers 200 countries on 3 measures. Liberia is highest, at 155.056; Singapore is lowest, at 3.782. The middle country reads 29.761. Against 1995, 199 values changed (18 up, 181 down), the same countries are covered.

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Infant Mortality Rate · Data for 1996

HighestLiberia

155.056

LowestSingapore

3.782

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, 1996, 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, 1996: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
derived
1LiberiaLBRWestern Africa155.056142.639168.577
2South SudanSSDEastern Africa143.676119.453169.607
3Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa131.587122.658141.120
4MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa131.526121.491142.836
5Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia131.420119.426144.558
6RwandaRWAEastern Africa129.031120.926137.879
7NigerNERWestern Africa124.624115.821134.034
8AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia122.712113.027132.933
9AngolaAGOMiddle Africa118.663105.776133.502
10DR CongoCODMiddle Africa118.112107.390130.396
11Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa114.736103.253129.789
12MaliMLIWestern Africa113.640106.641121.009
13MalawiMWIEastern Africa113.624106.874120.850
14GuineaGINWestern Africa112.647104.596121.147
15Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa110.850100.262122.653
16ChadTCDMiddle Africa108.128100.034117.094
17EthiopiaETHEastern Africa106.47099.163114.445
18Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa104.47894.529115.309
19SomaliaSOMEastern Africa103.88681.576135.566
20BurundiBDIEastern Africa103.65493.345115.570
21NigeriaNGAWestern Africa103.38097.202110.112
22TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa99.26593.090105.829
23Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa99.21592.426106.502
24PakistanPAKSouthern Asia99.10595.371103.237
25Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa97.79390.905105.540

02In 1996

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Liberia155.056
  2. 2South Sudan143.676
  3. 3Sierra Leone131.587
  4. 4Mozambique131.526
  5. 5Timor-Leste131.420

Lowest

  1. 200Singapore3.782
  2. 199Sweden3.795
  3. 198Iceland3.903
  4. 197Japan3.958
  5. 196Finland4.068

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 29.761. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestLiberia142.639

    LowestAndorra3.041

    Middle country: 26.760

  • Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestSouth Sudan169.607

    LowestSweden3.944

    Middle country: 32.489

031995 → 1996

Since 1995

What changed between 1995 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 199values changed, of 200 in both
  • 18 · 181rose · fell
  • 1unchanged

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 1996.

  • 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) (1996). Infant Mortality Rate, 1996 [data set], describing 1996. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/infant-mortality/1996

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