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Mortality Rate, Ages 5–14, 1999

1999, as UN IGME’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Mortality Rate, Ages 5–14, 1999 covers 200 countries on 3 measures. South Sudan is highest, at 63.2976; Luxembourg is lowest, at 0.8734. The middle country reads 4.7896. Against 1998, 199 values changed (17 up, 182 down), the same countries are covered.

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Mortality Rate, Ages 5–14 · Data for 1999

HighestSouth Sudan

63.2976

LowestLuxembourg

0.8734

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the lowest end. A higher value is the worse result.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Mortality Rate, Ages 5–14, 1999, 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

Mortality Rate, Ages 5–14, 1999: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
derived
1South SudanSSDEastern Africa63.297649.165281.16024
2RwandaRWAEastern Africa61.666053.903770.31485
3BurundiBDIEastern Africa61.370250.915973.87606
4Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia52.682841.304367.26266
5NigerNERWestern Africa52.129146.393558.88584
6EthiopiaETHEastern Africa43.827838.395550.48257
7DR CongoCODMiddle Africa43.545736.526052.22535
8AngolaAGOMiddle Africa41.363332.255752.68740
9ChadTCDMiddle Africa38.271233.353643.77810
10SomaliaSOMEastern Africa37.536129.303148.18941
11MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa35.536030.772641.30354
12Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa34.859229.897740.51357
13MaliMLIWestern Africa33.629730.140737.66720
14Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa33.375326.475942.59100
15SenegalSENWestern Africa33.345129.471638.09604
16GuineaGINWestern Africa31.905528.092836.28420
17BeninBENWestern Africa31.648027.955135.54095
18Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa31.484222.484243.88694
19NigeriaNGAWestern Africa31.220927.932235.29376
20Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa31.084424.317239.88606
21CameroonCMRMiddle Africa30.150626.823134.32725
22EritreaERIEastern Africa29.956324.652436.48797
23LiberiaLBRWestern Africa29.643223.884937.85716
24Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa27.219320.694334.10876
25MalawiMWIEastern Africa26.015723.482028.63217

02In 1999

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline, then the highest and lowest on each other measure.

Highest

  1. 1South Sudan63.2976
  2. 2Rwanda61.6660
  3. 3Burundi61.3702
  4. 4Timor-Leste52.6828
  5. 5Niger52.1291

Lowest

  1. 200Luxembourg0.8734
  2. 199Sweden1.1831
  3. 198Malta1.2180
  4. 197Japan1.2721
  5. 196Germany1.2805

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 4.7896. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestRwanda53.9037

    LowestLuxembourg0.7295

    Middle country: 4.3499

  • Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestSouth Sudan81.16024

    LowestLuxembourg1.04871

    Middle country: 5.43591

031998 → 1999

Since 1998

What changed between 1998 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 199values changed, of 200 in both
  • 17 · 182rose · fell
  • 1unchanged

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.

The site’s method

  • 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 1999.

  • The position is ours

    UN IGME publishes values only. The order here sorts the published values, and the page says so wherever it prints one.

  • Which end is better

    A higher value is the worse result.

  • 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. The version of CC BY written for intergovernmental organisations. Credit the publisher and say what you changed.

Cite this edition

UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME) (1999). Mortality Rate, Ages 5–14, 1999 [data set], describing 1999. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/mortality-5-to-14/1999

0635 held

Other years

07Questions

Mortality Rate, Ages 5–14, 1999: questions and answers

Which country has the highest child mortality at ages 5 to 14 in Mortality Rate, Ages 5–14, 1999?

South Sudan, at 63.2976, of the 200 countries in the file.

What year does Mortality Rate, Ages 5–14, 1999 describe?

1999.

How many countries does Mortality Rate, Ages 5–14, 1999 cover?

200.

Where can I download Mortality Rate, Ages 5–14, 1999?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Mortality Rate, Ages 5–14, 1999 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Mortality Rate, Ages 5–14, 2024.

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