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Infant Mortality Rate, 1997

1997, as UN IGME’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Infant Mortality Rate, 1997 covers 200 countries on 3 measures. Liberia is highest, at 148.301; Singapore is lowest, at 3.598. The middle country reads 28.495. Against 1996, 199 values changed (12 up, 187 down), the same countries are covered.

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Infant Mortality Rate · Data for 1997

HighestLiberia

148.301

LowestSingapore

3.598

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, 1997, 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, 1997: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
derived
1LiberiaLBRWestern Africa148.301136.827160.977
2South SudanSSDEastern Africa140.320116.992166.247
3Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa129.955121.270139.373
4RwandaRWAEastern Africa128.512120.489137.321
5MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa126.042116.378136.685
6Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia125.177113.557137.696
7NigerNERWestern Africa120.060111.628129.215
8AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia119.643110.438129.415
9AngolaAGOMiddle Africa117.162104.211132.004
10DR CongoCODMiddle Africa116.488105.870128.668
11Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa113.334101.692128.803
12MalawiMWIEastern Africa111.653105.190118.655
13MaliMLIWestern Africa111.385104.440118.661
14GuineaGINWestern Africa108.882101.119117.187
15Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa108.38097.875120.120
16ChadTCDMiddle Africa106.69398.651115.662
17SomaliaSOMEastern Africa103.88681.576135.566
18Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa103.45793.858114.166
19EthiopiaETHEastern Africa102.78195.770110.353
20NigeriaNGAWestern Africa102.06396.052108.672
21Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa97.68990.971104.914
22TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa96.79190.744103.382
23Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa96.49289.695104.150
24PakistanPAKSouthern Asia96.43592.662100.482
25UgandaUGAEastern Africa96.40090.412102.659

02In 1997

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Liberia148.301
  2. 2South Sudan140.320
  3. 3Sierra Leone129.955
  4. 4Rwanda128.512
  5. 5Mozambique126.042

Lowest

  1. 200Singapore3.598
  2. 199Sweden3.623
  3. 198Iceland3.685
  4. 197Japan3.783
  5. 196Finland3.896

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 28.495. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestLiberia136.827

    LowestAndorra3.137

    Middle country: 25.542

  • Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestSouth Sudan166.247

    LowestSweden3.761

    Middle country: 31.881

031996 → 1997

Since 1996

What changed between 1996 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 199values changed, of 200 in both
  • 12 · 187rose · 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 1997.

  • 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) (1997). Infant Mortality Rate, 1997 [data set], describing 1997. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/infant-mortality/1997

0672 held

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07Questions

Infant Mortality Rate, 1997: questions and answers

Which country has the highest infant mortality rate in Infant Mortality Rate, 1997?

Liberia, at 148.301, of the 200 countries in the file.

What year does Infant Mortality Rate, 1997 describe?

1997.

How many countries does Infant Mortality Rate, 1997 cover?

200.

Where can I download Infant Mortality Rate, 1997?

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, 1997 the newest?

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

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