Infant Mortality Rate, 2021

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Infant Mortality Rate, 2021: 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	Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa	96.309	76.1638	122.611
2	South SudanSSDEastern Africa	71.870	23.7772	173.484
3	SomaliaSOMEastern Africa	70.929	35.0049	146.684
4	NigeriaNGAWestern Africa	69.898	62.6983	77.923
5	NigerNERWestern Africa	68.728	56.0188	83.632
6	GuineaGINWestern Africa	64.354	52.7675	79.143
7	LiberiaLBRWestern Africa	63.466	53.1920	73.788
8	ChadTCDMiddle Africa	61.292	43.7076	84.483
9	LesothoLSOSouthern Africa	61.055	47.7419	76.982
10	Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa	59.937	49.2270	73.113
11	ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa	59.834	49.2913	72.804
12	DR CongoCODMiddle Africa	57.607	48.1946	69.214
13	MaliMLIWestern Africa	53.277	46.9097	60.296
14	AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia	53.230	42.3851	66.396
15	PakistanPAKSouthern Asia	52.996	44.8458	61.918
16	Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa	52.160	29.3931	89.518
17	EthiopiaETHEastern Africa	49.856	38.5201	64.175
18	BeninBENWestern Africa	49.128	39.7421	60.558
19	Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa	48.733	41.1012	57.951
20	Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa	47.403	32.8842	68.226
21	DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa	47.344	26.6956	81.693
22	MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa	47.085	39.6683	56.278
23	EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa	46.213	31.9635	68.782
24	Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa	45.911	27.3005	73.716
25	MadagascarMDGEastern Africa	44.365	36.9283	53.821

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 13.198. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

• Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

  HighestCentral African Republic76.1638

  LowestSan Marino0.6741

  Middle country: 10.3364

• Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

  HighestSouth Sudan173.484

  LowestJapan1.804

  Middle country: 17.125

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• 1unchanged

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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