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Infant Mortality Rate, 2013

2013, as UN IGME’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Infant Mortality Rate, 2013 covers 200 countries on 3 measures. Somalia is highest, at 88.4342; Iceland is lowest, at 1.9756. The middle country reads 15.7974. Against 2012, 200 values changed (20 up, 180 down), the same countries are covered.

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Infant Mortality Rate · Data for 2013

HighestSomalia

88.4342

LowestIceland

1.9756

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, 2013, 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, 2013: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
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1SomaliaSOMEastern Africa88.434255.9683144.7033
2Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa81.033770.145493.2751
3Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa80.083273.673587.4317
4ChadTCDMiddle Africa75.896665.501087.3370
5South SudanSSDEastern Africa72.154842.8037112.4405
6GuineaGINWestern Africa72.058865.223779.6916
7LesothoLSOSouthern Africa71.429564.215779.7032
8MaliMLIWestern Africa70.321064.920876.1924
9NigerNERWestern Africa69.212062.075676.9903
10AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia68.587361.703575.8751
11NigeriaNGAWestern Africa68.490863.672773.6783
12PakistanPAKSouthern Asia67.435162.791272.6225
13Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa67.095548.180090.5191
14LiberiaLBRWestern Africa66.977960.515474.5008
15Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa62.380256.472268.6951
16Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa59.806851.608269.1851
17DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa59.777342.872082.7288
18BeninBENWestern Africa59.776354.101465.9478
19Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa59.316245.306576.8535
20CameroonCMRMiddle Africa57.285051.711063.4380
21ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa56.573350.789762.8842
22MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa56.133450.952661.8454
23DR CongoCODMiddle Africa55.841248.592363.7887
24EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa55.410946.207766.5531
25EthiopiaETHEastern Africa52.191947.236657.5892

02In 2013

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Somalia88.4342
  2. 2Central African Republic81.0337
  3. 3Sierra Leone80.0832
  4. 4Chad75.8966
  5. 5South Sudan72.1548

Lowest

  1. 200Iceland1.9756
  2. 199San Marino2.0397
  3. 198Finland2.1286
  4. 197Japan2.1553
  5. 196Singapore2.1984

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 15.7974. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestSierra Leone73.6735

    LowestSan Marino1.2690

    Middle country: 13.9142

  • Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestSomalia144.7033

    LowestJapan2.1968

    Middle country: 18.1124

032012 → 2013

Since 2012

What changed between 2012 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 200values changed, of 200 in both
  • 20 · 180rose · 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 2013.

  • 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) (2013). Infant Mortality Rate, 2013 [data set], describing 2013. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/infant-mortality/2013

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07Questions

Infant Mortality Rate, 2013: questions and answers

Which country has the highest infant mortality rate in Infant Mortality Rate, 2013?

Somalia, at 88.4342, of the 200 countries in the file.

What year does Infant Mortality Rate, 2013 describe?

2013.

How many countries does Infant Mortality Rate, 2013 cover?

200.

Where can I download Infant Mortality Rate, 2013?

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, 2013 the newest?

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

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