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Infant Mortality Rate, 2011

2011, as UN IGME’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Infant Mortality Rate, 2011 covers 200 countries on 3 measures. Somalia is highest, at 217.565572; Iceland is lowest, at 2.005310. The middle country reads 16.531107. Against 2010, 200 values changed (17 up, 183 down), the same countries are covered.

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Infant Mortality Rate · Data for 2011

HighestSomalia

217.565572

LowestIceland

2.005310

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, 2011, 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, 2011: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
derived
1SomaliaSOMEastern Africa217.565572147.880331.4406
2Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa87.00794480.51694.1465
3ChadTCDMiddle Africa79.86592770.48490.0776
4Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa77.74133568.07788.6613
5South SudanSSDEastern Africa75.34274350.019107.7376
6MaliMLIWestern Africa74.54413169.19780.4048
7AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia73.97254267.32180.8108
8GuineaGINWestern Africa73.61349267.13080.7091
9Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa71.70662954.77292.2990
10PakistanPAKSouthern Asia71.09590166.67775.9773
11LesothoLSOSouthern Africa70.91333163.85179.0421
12NigeriaNGAWestern Africa69.97759765.25274.9496
13NigerNERWestern Africa69.96898963.27577.1935
14LiberiaLBRWestern Africa69.88254963.62476.8538
15Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa66.55041460.60372.8261
16Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa64.62008852.15880.2530
17ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa64.23860858.51370.3925
18Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa63.81452356.59771.5590
19DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa63.06711147.67883.8604
20BeninBENWestern Africa62.42956457.03068.2134
21CameroonCMRMiddle Africa61.83564156.14268.2274
22MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa59.83012554.55865.4397
23DR CongoCODMiddle Africa57.93970950.74265.7806
24EthiopiaETHEastern Africa56.75251952.00461.9852
25EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa55.26055747.31464.2662

02In 2011

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Somalia217.565572
  2. 2Sierra Leone87.007944
  3. 3Chad79.865927
  4. 4Central African Republic77.741335
  5. 5South Sudan75.342743

Lowest

  1. 200Iceland2.005310
  2. 199Singapore2.227020
  3. 198Luxembourg2.297504
  4. 197San Marino2.300641
  5. 196Finland2.322637

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 16.531107. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestSomalia147.880

    LowestSan Marino1.473

    Middle country: 14.715

  • Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestSomalia331.4406

    LowestIceland2.2800

    Middle country: 18.6908

032010 → 2011

Since 2010

What changed between 2010 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 200values changed, of 200 in both
  • 17 · 183rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

  • Somalia112.539688 → 217.565572+105.025884
  • Syria17.537111 → 18.707452+1.170341
  • Botswana53.276599 → 54.321439+1.044840
  • Libya13.009924 → 13.903361+0.893437
  • Dominica22.440305 → 23.242091+0.801786

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 2011.

  • 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) (2011). Infant Mortality Rate, 2011 [data set], describing 2011. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/infant-mortality/2011

0672 held

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07Questions

Infant Mortality Rate, 2011: questions and answers

Which country has the highest infant mortality rate in Infant Mortality Rate, 2011?

Somalia, at 217.565572, of the 200 countries in the file.

What year does Infant Mortality Rate, 2011 describe?

2011.

How many countries does Infant Mortality Rate, 2011 cover?

200.

Where can I download Infant Mortality Rate, 2011?

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, 2011 the newest?

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

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