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Infant Mortality Rate, 2015

2015, as UN IGME’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Infant Mortality Rate, 2015 covers 200 countries on 3 measures. South Sudan is highest, at 151.350; San Marino is lowest, at 1.823. The middle country reads 15.413. Against 2014, 200 values changed (26 up, 174 down), the same countries are covered.

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Infant Mortality Rate · Data for 2015

HighestSouth Sudan

151.350

LowestSan Marino

1.823

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, 2015, 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, 2015: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
derived
1South SudanSSDEastern Africa151.35078.997257.3186
2SomaliaSOMEastern Africa83.68949.375146.1767
3Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa76.94969.79985.0266
4ChadTCDMiddle Africa72.05360.47384.9351
5Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa71.99961.51384.1363
6GuineaGINWestern Africa71.23763.69579.7023
7NigerNERWestern Africa69.10861.37177.8240
8LesothoLSOSouthern Africa68.96361.88877.4965
9NigeriaNGAWestern Africa68.00162.95173.4783
10MaliMLIWestern Africa66.12960.71871.9701
11LiberiaLBRWestern Africa65.14558.32473.0692
12AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia63.99756.72571.8712
13PakistanPAKSouthern Asia63.56358.60969.1893
14Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa62.94742.43690.2109
15Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa58.38052.58364.8635
16BeninBENWestern Africa57.04951.04763.6778
17DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa56.55238.31582.4150
18Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa56.31446.70168.3125
19Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa55.18939.57674.7870
20DR CongoCODMiddle Africa55.11447.87363.0816
21ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa54.68948.47261.6224
22EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa54.09343.66068.0320
23MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa53.81948.36160.0047
24CameroonCMRMiddle Africa53.25247.78259.6068
25HaitiHTICaribbean49.70941.59460.6602

02In 2015

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1South Sudan151.350
  2. 2Somalia83.689
  3. 3Sierra Leone76.949
  4. 4Chad72.053
  5. 5Central African Republic71.999

Lowest

  1. 200San Marino1.823
  2. 199Iceland1.985
  3. 198Finland1.995
  4. 197Japan2.016
  5. 196Cyprus2.103

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 15.413. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestSouth Sudan78.997

    LowestSan Marino1.081

    Middle country: 13.174

  • Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestSouth Sudan257.3186

    LowestJapan2.0555

    Middle country: 17.6096

032014 → 2015

Since 2014

What changed between 2014 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 200values changed, of 200 in both
  • 26 · 174rose · 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 2015.

  • 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) (2015). Infant Mortality Rate, 2015 [data set], describing 2015. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/infant-mortality/2015

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07Questions

Infant Mortality Rate, 2015: questions and answers

Which country has the highest infant mortality rate in Infant Mortality Rate, 2015?

South Sudan, at 151.350, of the 200 countries in the file.

What year does Infant Mortality Rate, 2015 describe?

2015.

How many countries does Infant Mortality Rate, 2015 cover?

200.

Where can I download Infant Mortality Rate, 2015?

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, 2015 the newest?

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

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