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Infant Mortality Rate, 2006

2006, as UN IGME’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Infant Mortality Rate, 2006 covers 200 countries on 3 measures. Sierra Leone is highest, at 105.8807; Singapore is lowest, at 2.2799. The middle country reads 19.1829. Against 2005, 200 values changed (15 up, 185 down), the same countries are covered.

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Infant Mortality Rate · Data for 2006

HighestSierra Leone

105.8807

LowestSingapore

2.2799

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, 2006, 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, 2006: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
derived
1Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa105.880798.606113.546
2SomaliaSOMEastern Africa103.532781.074135.291
3South SudanSSDEastern Africa92.326975.074112.189
4ChadTCDMiddle Africa90.364482.08599.347
5AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia90.283683.75697.506
6Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa87.420278.11197.676
7Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa87.153874.185103.287
8MaliMLIWestern Africa85.818880.29691.843
9LiberiaLBRWestern Africa83.841877.05691.059
10Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa81.665771.47093.133
11NigerNERWestern Africa80.802474.32387.824
12GuineaGINWestern Africa79.591073.07786.572
13LesothoLSOSouthern Africa79.584372.58787.357
14PakistanPAKSouthern Asia78.592074.83582.693
15Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa77.792971.69184.517
16NigeriaNGAWestern Africa77.682273.04382.537
17Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa77.138670.75284.207
18MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa75.992669.91382.488
19AngolaAGOMiddle Africa72.217661.60084.148
20CameroonCMRMiddle Africa71.563565.26378.524
21DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa71.094958.75487.119
22EthiopiaETHEastern Africa70.923665.80676.625
23BurundiBDIEastern Africa69.885962.04878.766
24BeninBENWestern Africa69.398864.28174.822
25DR CongoCODMiddle Africa69.010662.36176.486

02In 2006

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Sierra Leone105.8807
  2. 2Somalia103.5327
  3. 3South Sudan92.3269
  4. 4Chad90.3644
  5. 5Afghanistan90.2836

Lowest

  1. 200Singapore2.2799
  2. 199Iceland2.2868
  3. 198Japan2.6650
  4. 197Luxembourg2.7481
  5. 196Sweden2.8310

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 19.1829. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestSierra Leone98.606

    LowestIceland2.009

    Middle country: 17.445

  • Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestSomalia135.291

    LowestSingapore2.432

    Middle country: 21.291

032005 → 2006

Since 2005

What changed between 2005 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 200values changed, of 200 in both
  • 15 · 185rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Eswatini72.2109 → 63.0117−9.1991
  • Angola78.9232 → 72.2176−6.7056
  • Sudan66.3907 → 59.6950−6.6957
  • Rwanda64.0343 → 58.0877−5.9467
  • Liberia88.9608 → 83.8418−5.1190

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 2006.

  • 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) (2006). Infant Mortality Rate, 2006 [data set], describing 2006. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/infant-mortality/2006

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07Questions

Infant Mortality Rate, 2006: questions and answers

Which country has the highest infant mortality rate in Infant Mortality Rate, 2006?

Sierra Leone, at 105.8807, of the 200 countries in the file.

What year does Infant Mortality Rate, 2006 describe?

2006.

How many countries does Infant Mortality Rate, 2006 cover?

200.

Where can I download Infant Mortality Rate, 2006?

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, 2006 the newest?

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

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