Infant Mortality Rate, 2017

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Infant Mortality Rate, 2017: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).

Positionderived	Country	Deaths before age one (per 1,000 live births)	Lower bound (90% uncertainty)	Upper bound (90% uncertainty)
1	South SudanSSDEastern Africa	181.5072	81.3021	342.734
2	SomaliaSOMEastern Africa	96.4581	53.7523	178.886
3	Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa	88.4033	74.0071	105.441
4	NigerNERWestern Africa	69.2683	60.5629	78.878
5	GuineaGINWestern Africa	69.0485	60.6016	78.772
6	Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa	68.7100	60.8533	77.736
7	ChadTCDMiddle Africa	68.3274	55.0791	83.714
8	NigeriaNGAWestern Africa	68.3195	62.9363	74.310
9	LesothoLSOSouthern Africa	67.9717	59.5824	77.553
10	LiberiaLBRWestern Africa	63.7386	56.6118	72.120
11	MaliMLIWestern Africa	61.8742	56.4110	67.801
12	AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia	60.0885	51.7191	69.173
13	PakistanPAKSouthern Asia	59.8187	54.1883	66.209
14	Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa	59.1081	37.4264	89.718
15	DR CongoCODMiddle Africa	55.3730	48.0979	63.653
16	Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa	55.1994	49.0954	62.177
17	BeninBENWestern Africa	54.4260	47.8931	61.654
18	ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa	54.2225	47.1776	62.399
19	DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa	53.3086	33.9405	82.156
20	Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa	53.1329	41.9248	67.739
21	Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa	51.6994	34.8742	73.995
22	MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa	51.3563	45.5554	58.049
23	EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa	51.0713	39.4791	68.021
24	CameroonCMRMiddle Africa	49.6384	43.5657	56.937
25	HaitiHTICaribbean	47.2393	37.7926	60.052

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 14.3508. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

• Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

  HighestSouth Sudan81.3021

  LowestSan Marino0.9093

  Middle country: 12.3763

• Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

  HighestSouth Sudan342.734

  LowestJapan1.943

  Middle country: 17.498

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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.

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