Infant Mortality Rate, 2023

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Infant Mortality Rate, 2023: 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	71.8697	19.837	196.882
2	NigeriaNGAWestern Africa	70.1303	61.113	80.760
3	SomaliaSOMEastern Africa	67.2559	31.475	145.361
4	NigerNERWestern Africa	66.8988	51.542	86.232
5	LiberiaLBRWestern Africa	63.6247	50.182	77.344
6	ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa	62.1961	45.499	83.487
7	GuineaGINWestern Africa	61.4270	47.388	80.130
8	Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa	60.7577	45.389	81.163
9	LesothoLSOSouthern Africa	58.4253	42.625	78.569
10	ChadTCDMiddle Africa	57.9652	38.972	85.272
11	DR CongoCODMiddle Africa	57.1712	45.928	72.130
12	Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa	56.3023	43.709	72.730
13	AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia	49.9259	38.235	65.449
14	PakistanPAKSouthern Asia	49.7312	40.186	60.877
15	MaliMLIWestern Africa	49.3016	42.073	57.150
16	Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa	49.1787	26.142	89.793
17	BeninBENWestern Africa	46.4803	35.472	61.188
18	Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa	46.1537	37.252	57.140
19	MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa	44.9230	36.030	56.193
20	Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa	44.8655	28.970	69.010
21	EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa	44.6643	29.081	69.930
22	DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa	44.3975	23.804	81.455
23	SudanSDNNorthern Africa	44.0279	28.784	66.999
24	MadagascarMDGEastern Africa	43.6897	34.508	55.845
25	Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa	43.3814	24.288	73.561

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 12.8651. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

• Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

  HighestNigeria61.113

  LowestSan Marino0.600

  Middle country: 9.436

• Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

  HighestSouth Sudan196.882

  LowestJapan1.828

  Middle country: 17.446

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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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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.

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