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Infant Mortality Rate, 2001

2001, as UN IGME’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Infant Mortality Rate, 2001 covers 200 countries on 3 measures. Malawi is highest, at 138.500; Singapore is lowest, at 2.828. The middle country reads 25.173. Against 2000, 199 values changed (12 up, 187 down), the same countries are covered.

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Infant Mortality Rate · Data for 2001

HighestMalawi

138.500

LowestSingapore

2.828

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, 2001, 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, 2001: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
derived
1MalawiMWIEastern Africa138.500129.7647147.5608
2Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa120.813112.7331129.4420
3LiberiaLBRWestern Africa117.456108.6533127.2457
4South SudanSSDEastern Africa113.63896.1034133.9926
5AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia107.51399.6409116.3125
6NigerNERWestern Africa104.08095.9846113.1152
7SomaliaSOMEastern Africa103.88681.5759135.5664
8AngolaAGOMiddle Africa103.77691.0719118.6341
9Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa103.29391.5727119.3054
10DR CongoCODMiddle Africa101.80592.3804112.3578
11MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa100.84593.1420109.0664
12MaliMLIWestern Africa99.93093.7088106.4878
13ChadTCDMiddle Africa99.85291.8506108.7109
14RwandaRWAEastern Africa98.42691.7359105.6000
15Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa97.94988.6517109.2169
16Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa97.85787.5583109.2105
17GuineaGINWestern Africa93.58686.6160101.0564
18NigeriaNGAWestern Africa91.79486.442697.3281
19Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa90.38783.882997.6492
20Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa89.29682.761296.7424
21EthiopiaETHEastern Africa88.85182.782495.5397
22PakistanPAKSouthern Asia86.64682.785590.5170
23BurundiBDIEastern Africa86.09077.791395.5466
24UgandaUGAEastern Africa85.46679.939791.2097
25ZambiaZMBEastern Africa84.58678.671891.0700

02In 2001

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Malawi138.500
  2. 2Sierra Leone120.813
  3. 3Liberia117.456
  4. 4South Sudan113.638
  5. 5Afghanistan107.513

Lowest

  1. 200Singapore2.828
  2. 199Iceland2.915
  3. 198Japan3.138
  4. 197Sweden3.343
  5. 196Finland3.408

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 25.173. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestMalawi129.7647

    LowestIceland2.5963

    Middle country: 21.8339

  • Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestMalawi147.5608

    LowestSingapore2.9976

    Middle country: 27.7693

032000 → 2001

Since 2000

What changed between 2000 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 2001.

  • 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) (2001). Infant Mortality Rate, 2001 [data set], describing 2001. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/infant-mortality/2001

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07Questions

Infant Mortality Rate, 2001: questions and answers

Which country has the highest infant mortality rate in Infant Mortality Rate, 2001?

Malawi, at 138.500, of the 200 countries in the file.

What year does Infant Mortality Rate, 2001 describe?

2001.

How many countries does Infant Mortality Rate, 2001 cover?

200.

Where can I download Infant Mortality Rate, 2001?

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, 2001 the newest?

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

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