Infant Mortality Rate, 2024

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Infant Mortality Rate, 2024: 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	71.870	18.4903	209.984
2	NigeriaNGAWestern Africa	69.771	59.6350	82.163
3	NigerNERWestern Africa	65.622	49.1075	87.459
4	SomaliaSOMEastern Africa	65.399	30.0290	144.185
5	LiberiaLBRWestern Africa	63.246	48.4034	79.347
6	ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa	62.436	42.4587	90.026
7	GuineaGINWestern Africa	59.819	44.6879	80.783
8	Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa	58.826	42.5122	80.674
9	DR CongoCODMiddle Africa	56.424	44.2778	73.448
10	LesothoLSOSouthern Africa	56.338	39.7521	77.935
11	ChadTCDMiddle Africa	56.263	36.6045	85.372
12	Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa	54.596	41.0373	72.504
13	AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia	48.315	36.1494	65.016
14	PakistanPAKSouthern Asia	48.214	37.9253	60.622
15	Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa	47.603	24.5182	89.714
16	MaliMLIWestern Africa	47.518	39.9261	55.883
17	BeninBENWestern Africa	45.185	33.3313	61.692
18	Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa	44.823	35.1462	56.838
19	MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa	43.720	34.0760	56.110
20	Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa	43.634	27.2684	69.375
21	DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa	42.999	22.3479	81.488
22	MadagascarMDGEastern Africa	42.967	33.0140	56.440
23	SudanSDNNorthern Africa	42.913	27.1849	67.102
24	EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa	42.217	26.7060	68.009
25	Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa	42.073	22.9819	73.441

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 12.260. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

• Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

  HighestNigeria59.6350

  LowestSan Marino0.5684

  Middle country: 8.8946

• Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

  HighestSouth Sudan209.984

  LowestEstonia1.865

  Middle country: 17.212

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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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