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Infant Mortality Rate, 2004

2004, as UN IGME’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Infant Mortality Rate, 2004 covers 200 countries on 3 measures. Sierra Leone is highest, at 112.364; Singapore is lowest, at 2.405. The middle country reads 21.131. Against 2003, 199 values changed (15 up, 184 down), the same countries are covered.

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Infant Mortality Rate · Data for 2004

HighestSierra Leone

112.364

LowestSingapore

2.405

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, 2004, 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, 2004: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
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1Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa112.364104.7263120.369
2SomaliaSOMEastern Africa103.88681.5759135.566
3South SudanSSDEastern Africa100.23384.0377118.581
4AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia97.36390.3382105.211
5LiberiaLBRWestern Africa95.00987.7876103.104
6ChadTCDMiddle Africa94.30086.2958103.072
7Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa93.96681.5595109.759
8Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa92.17782.9288103.055
9DR CongoCODMiddle Africa91.69783.1502101.058
10MaliMLIWestern Africa90.98185.260597.219
11NigerNERWestern Africa89.53282.704897.126
12Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa88.53078.4772100.006
13AngolaAGOMiddle Africa85.84474.468099.033
14MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa85.12378.377792.241
15GuineaGINWestern Africa84.08677.481891.266
16Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa83.14576.712990.303
17NigeriaNGAWestern Africa82.69077.886587.832
18Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa82.49676.174289.480
19PakistanPAKSouthern Asia81.43177.709685.245
20EthiopiaETHEastern Africa77.99172.634183.905
21LesothoLSOSouthern Africa77.79371.076384.893
22BurundiBDIEastern Africa77.39069.176286.901
23CameroonCMRMiddle Africa75.23268.972882.009
24DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa74.36662.355989.712
25EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa73.23865.352382.042

02In 2004

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Sierra Leone112.364
  2. 2Somalia103.886
  3. 3South Sudan100.233
  4. 4Afghanistan97.363
  5. 5Liberia95.009

Lowest

  1. 200Singapore2.405
  2. 199Iceland2.490
  3. 198Japan2.825
  4. 197Luxembourg3.068
  5. 196Sweden3.076

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 21.131. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestSierra Leone104.7263

    LowestIceland2.2033

    Middle country: 19.1717

  • Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestSomalia135.566

    LowestSingapore2.561

    Middle country: 23.922

032003 → 2004

Since 2003

What changed between 2003 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 199values changed, of 200 in both
  • 15 · 184rose · fell
  • 1unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Rwanda79.544 → 71.078−8.467
  • Liberia101.979 → 95.009−6.970
  • Angola92.455 → 85.844−6.611
  • Zambia72.320 → 65.839−6.481
  • Malawi76.427 → 70.099−6.328

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 2004.

  • 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) (2004). Infant Mortality Rate, 2004 [data set], describing 2004. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/infant-mortality/2004

0672 held

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07Questions

Infant Mortality Rate, 2004: questions and answers

Which country has the highest infant mortality rate in Infant Mortality Rate, 2004?

Sierra Leone, at 112.364, of the 200 countries in the file.

What year does Infant Mortality Rate, 2004 describe?

2004.

How many countries does Infant Mortality Rate, 2004 cover?

200.

Where can I download Infant Mortality Rate, 2004?

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, 2004 the newest?

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

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