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Infant Mortality Rate, 1998

1998, as UN IGME’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Infant Mortality Rate, 1998 covers 200 countries on 3 measures. South Sudan is highest, at 238.772; Singapore is lowest, at 3.409. The middle country reads 27.538. Against 1997, 199 values changed (12 up, 187 down), the same countries are covered.

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Infant Mortality Rate · Data for 1998

HighestSouth Sudan

238.772

LowestSingapore

3.409

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, 1998, 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, 1998: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
derived
1South SudanSSDEastern Africa238.772200.191282.9332
2LiberiaLBRWestern Africa141.049130.258152.7087
3Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa127.971119.488137.1161
4Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia124.831113.026137.3953
5RwandaRWAEastern Africa124.407116.475132.9058
6MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa119.728110.613129.5206
7AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia116.632107.838126.1949
8NigerNERWestern Africa115.818107.581124.8045
9AngolaAGOMiddle Africa114.788101.853129.4898
10Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa111.37899.745127.0719
11DR CongoCODMiddle Africa110.471100.422121.8127
12MalawiMWIEastern Africa108.951102.618115.9473
13MaliMLIWestern Africa108.862102.132116.0558
14Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa105.85495.465117.3872
15ChadTCDMiddle Africa105.13697.041114.0021
16GuineaGINWestern Africa105.06597.572113.1047
17SomaliaSOMEastern Africa103.88681.576135.5664
18Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa102.30992.777113.2161
19NigeriaNGAWestern Africa100.17194.310106.6156
20EthiopiaETHEastern Africa99.14892.495106.4950
21SudanSDNNorthern Africa96.74788.547105.9062
22Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa96.05789.399103.2446
23Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa94.92488.248102.5621
24UgandaUGAEastern Africa94.80388.916101.0588
25ZambiaZMBEastern Africa94.47988.193101.2055

02In 1998

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1South Sudan238.772
  2. 2Liberia141.049
  3. 3Sierra Leone127.971
  4. 4Timor-Leste124.831
  5. 5Rwanda124.407

Lowest

  1. 200Singapore3.409
  2. 199Iceland3.475
  3. 198Sweden3.511
  4. 197Japan3.606
  5. 196Finland3.749

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 27.538. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestSouth Sudan200.191

    LowestIceland3.112

    Middle country: 24.224

  • Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestSouth Sudan282.9332

    LowestSingapore3.6029

    Middle country: 30.5578

031997 → 1998

Since 1997

What changed between 1997 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 1998.

  • 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) (1998). Infant Mortality Rate, 1998 [data set], describing 1998. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/infant-mortality/1998

0672 held

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07Questions

Infant Mortality Rate, 1998: questions and answers

Which country has the highest infant mortality rate in Infant Mortality Rate, 1998?

South Sudan, at 238.772, of the 200 countries in the file.

What year does Infant Mortality Rate, 1998 describe?

1998.

How many countries does Infant Mortality Rate, 1998 cover?

200.

Where can I download Infant Mortality Rate, 1998?

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, 1998 the newest?

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

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