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Infant Mortality Rate, 2019

2019, 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, 2019 covers 200 countries on 3 measures. Central African Republic is highest, at 128.9335; San Marino is lowest, at 1.4773. The middle country reads 13.8574. Against 2018, 200 values changed (33 up, 167 down), the same countries are covered.

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Infant Mortality Rate · Data for 2019

HighestCentral African Republic

128.9335

LowestSan Marino

1.4773

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, 2019, 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, 2019: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
derived
1Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa128.9335105.62399157.6069
2SomaliaSOMEastern Africa74.992739.22616148.0134
3South SudanSSDEastern Africa71.869727.83036152.7116
4NigerNERWestern Africa69.295059.2029480.7511
5NigeriaNGAWestern Africa69.116063.1789175.6899
6GuineaGINWestern Africa67.001757.3380378.6304
7ChadTCDMiddle Africa64.631349.3251783.4499
8Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa64.041754.8708774.6638
9LesothoLSOSouthern Africa63.519853.2006275.4516
10LiberiaLBRWestern Africa63.332455.0450172.3395
11MaliMLIWestern Africa57.551651.8004263.8706
12AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia56.566646.8363167.3358
13DR CongoCODMiddle Africa56.494848.5956265.6968
14PakistanPAKSouthern Asia56.342749.4916263.8718
15ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa55.751247.6279265.8157
16Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa55.660432.9798189.6601
17BeninBENWestern Africa51.808144.0353060.6575
18Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa51.799344.9483759.7063
19Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa50.245237.2481767.8839
20DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa50.230730.2567882.4036
21MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa49.165442.8120156.6932
22Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa48.644630.7393973.5241
23EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa47.584834.7140967.6982
24CameroonCMRMiddle Africa46.885839.2389956.1249
25HaitiHTICaribbean44.731934.0509459.9427

02In 2019

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 Republic128.9335
  2. 2Somalia74.9927
  3. 3South Sudan71.8697
  4. 4Niger69.2950
  5. 5Nigeria69.1160

Lowest

  1. 200San Marino1.4773
  2. 199Japan1.8152
  3. 198Finland1.8928
  4. 197Estonia1.9418
  5. 196Slovenia1.9522

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 13.8574. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

032018 → 2019

Since 2018

What changed between 2018 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 200values changed, of 200 in both
  • 33 · 167rose · 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 2019.

  • 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) (2019). Infant Mortality Rate, 2019 [data set], describing 2019. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/infant-mortality/2019

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