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Infant Mortality Rate, 2007

2007, as UN IGME’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Infant Mortality Rate, 2007 covers 200 countries on 3 measures. Somalia is highest, at 102.4787; Iceland is lowest, at 2.2044. The middle country reads 18.4236. Against 2006, 200 values changed (14 up, 186 down), the same countries are covered.

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Infant Mortality Rate · Data for 2007

HighestSomalia

102.4787

LowestIceland

2.2044

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, 2007, 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, 2007: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
derived
1SomaliaSOMEastern Africa102.478779.433135.432
2Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa102.306395.266109.766
3South SudanSSDEastern Africa88.591770.127110.019
4ChadTCDMiddle Africa88.307579.92297.366
5AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia86.794480.37993.632
6Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa85.325876.05695.502
7Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa83.644970.338100.385
8MaliMLIWestern Africa83.410277.91089.358
9LiberiaLBRWestern Africa79.774073.20786.788
10LesothoLSOSouthern Africa79.013071.90586.941
11Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa78.212467.77389.899
12GuineaGINWestern Africa77.917371.52884.751
13NigerNERWestern Africa77.319870.92884.249
14PakistanPAKSouthern Asia77.268673.35681.541
15NigeriaNGAWestern Africa75.595770.98580.427
16Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa75.313569.26181.859
17Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa74.097267.72981.043
18MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa70.052964.40976.200
19CameroonCMRMiddle Africa69.912963.72976.796
20DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa69.469456.90885.968
21ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa68.810962.91075.412
22BeninBENWestern Africa67.906662.79673.408
23EthiopiaETHEastern Africa67.698762.66073.177
24DR CongoCODMiddle Africa66.223059.59473.748
25AngolaAGOMiddle Africa65.985055.39577.539

02In 2007

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Somalia102.4787
  2. 2Sierra Leone102.3063
  3. 3South Sudan88.5917
  4. 4Chad88.3075
  5. 5Afghanistan86.7944

Lowest

  1. 200Iceland2.2044
  2. 199Singapore2.2537
  3. 198Japan2.5885
  4. 197Luxembourg2.6222
  5. 196Sweden2.7226

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 18.4236. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestSierra Leone95.266

    LowestIceland1.932

    Middle country: 16.831

  • Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestSomalia135.432

    LowestSingapore2.406

    Middle country: 20.415

032006 → 2007

Since 2006

What changed between 2006 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 200values changed, of 200 in both
  • 14 · 186rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Angola72.2176 → 65.9850−6.2326
  • Mozambique75.9926 → 70.0529−5.9397
  • Rwanda58.0877 → 53.2148−4.8728
  • Uganda63.0054 → 58.9317−4.0737
  • Liberia83.8418 → 79.7740−4.0678

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 2007.

  • 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) (2007). Infant Mortality Rate, 2007 [data set], describing 2007. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/infant-mortality/2007

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07Questions

Infant Mortality Rate, 2007: questions and answers

Which country has the highest infant mortality rate in Infant Mortality Rate, 2007?

Somalia, at 102.4787, of the 200 countries in the file.

What year does Infant Mortality Rate, 2007 describe?

2007.

How many countries does Infant Mortality Rate, 2007 cover?

200.

Where can I download Infant Mortality Rate, 2007?

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, 2007 the newest?

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

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