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Infant Mortality Rate, 2009

2009, as UN IGME’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

The infant mortality rate is how many children out of every thousand born alive die before their first birthday. Most child deaths happen in the first year, and many in the first month, so it is the part of child mortality most tied to care around birth — clean delivery, newborn care and vaccination.

Infant Mortality Rate, 2009 covers 200 countries on 3 measures. Central African Republic is highest, at 239.853; Iceland is lowest, at 2.078. The middle country reads 17.393. Against 2008, 200 values changed (14 up, 186 down), the same countries are covered.

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Infant Mortality Rate · Data for 2009

HighestCentral African Republic

239.853

LowestIceland

2.078

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, 2009, 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, 2009: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
derived
1Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa239.853212.064270.865
2SomaliaSOMEastern Africa98.35772.063138.011
3Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa94.72387.982101.999
4ChadTCDMiddle Africa84.11275.34493.710
5South SudanSSDEastern Africa81.52660.049107.753
6AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia80.06373.79186.748
7MaliMLIWestern Africa78.89773.55084.704
8LesothoLSOSouthern Africa77.56670.25885.888
9Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa77.08362.14995.591
10GuineaGINWestern Africa75.38369.03682.245
11PakistanPAKSouthern Asia74.38270.21078.997
12LiberiaLBRWestern Africa73.84967.57180.766
13NigerNERWestern Africa72.39665.96079.376
14NigeriaNGAWestern Africa72.32767.69577.090
15Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa71.17060.10184.600
16Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa70.48264.60376.832
17ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa69.77063.77776.405
18Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa68.53361.94175.577
19CameroonCMRMiddle Africa66.33760.39173.053
20DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa66.15652.60084.618
21BeninBENWestern Africa65.14359.89470.740
22MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa63.91858.58569.629
23EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa63.79755.91872.747
24EthiopiaETHEastern Africa61.83756.93267.074
25DR CongoCODMiddle Africa61.42054.53669.090

02In 2009

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Central African Republic239.853
  2. 2Somalia98.357
  3. 3Sierra Leone94.723
  4. 4Chad84.112
  5. 5South Sudan81.526

Lowest

  1. 200Iceland2.078
  2. 199Singapore2.238
  3. 198Luxembourg2.427
  4. 197Japan2.450
  5. 196Finland2.558

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 17.393. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

032008 → 2009

Since 2008

What changed between 2008 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

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 2009.

  • 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) (2009). Infant Mortality Rate, 2009 [data set], describing 2009. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/infant-mortality/2009

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