Data for 1969

Neonatal Mortality Rate, 1969

Name: Neonatal Mortality Rate, 1969
Creator: UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME)
License: https://data.unicef.org/open-data/

1969, as UN IGME’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

The neonatal mortality rate is how many babies out of every thousand born alive die in their first 28 days. Most deaths in the first year of life happen in this first month, which makes it the measure most directly tied to care at birth — a skilled attendant, a clean delivery, warmth, and help with breathing and infection.

Neonatal Mortality Rate, 1969 covers 92 countries on 3 measures. Mali is highest, at 99.53; Japan is lowest, at 9.15. The middle country reads 33.94.

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Neonatal Mortality Rate · Data for 1969

HighestMali

99.53

LowestJapan

9.15

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the lowest end.

92countries
3measures per country
1969the year it describes
92distinct values14 decimals, as published
Sep 29, 2026read from the publisher
CC BY 3.0 IGOlicence

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Neonatal Mortality Rate, 1969, as published. UN IGME ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

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Neonatal Mortality Rate, 1969: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
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1	Mali`MLI`Western Africa	99.53	85.387	115.765
2	Liberia`LBR`Western Africa	92.98	79.359	108.732
3	Bangladesh`BGD`Southern Asia	92.73	84.473	101.760
4	Nepal`NPL`Southern Asia	89.02	78.911	100.637
5	India`IND`Southern Asia	85.29	78.272	93.148
6	Haiti`HTI`Caribbean	82.48	71.291	95.180
7	Côte d’Ivoire`CIV`Western Africa	78.96	68.772	90.286
8	Yemen`YEM`Western Asia	77.64	68.185	88.623
9	Pakistan`PAK`Southern Asia	76.44	68.930	84.459
10	Algeria`DZA`Northern Africa	71.06	58.241	86.369
11	Burkina Faso`BFA`Western Africa	70.47	58.592	84.103
12	Malawi`MWI`Eastern Africa	69.99	59.227	84.016
13	Nigeria`NGA`Western Africa	69.90	59.683	82.352
14	Bolivia`BOL`South America	63.80	56.410	72.279
15	Lesotho`LSO`Southern Africa	62.67	53.904	72.598
16	Egypt`EGY`Northern Africa	60.93	54.786	67.582
17	Cameroon`CMR`Middle Africa	60.91	53.009	70.054
18	Ghana`GHA`Western Africa	60.39	54.791	67.287
19	Niger`NER`Western Africa	60.23	49.665	73.234
20	Rwanda`RWA`Eastern Africa	60.08	53.116	67.956
21	Benin`BEN`Western Africa	58.99	51.857	67.044
22	Morocco`MAR`Northern Africa	58.24	51.689	65.071
23	Türkiye`TUR`Western Asia	57.65	51.127	65.124
24	Togo`TGO`Western Africa	55.54	47.945	64.184
25	Uganda`UGA`Eastern Africa	55.43	46.804	65.799
26	Mauritania`MRT`Western Africa	55.36	48.188	63.681
27	Senegal`SEN`Western Africa	55.04	48.477	61.892
28	Guatemala`GTM`Central America	52.40	46.374	59.633
29	Burundi`BDI`Eastern Africa	49.76	41.845	59.401
30	Indonesia`IDN`South-eastern Asia	49.45	45.007	54.059
31	Ecuador`ECU`South America	49.04	42.200	56.917
32	Tunisia`TUN`Northern Africa	48.72	41.569	56.910
33	Thailand`THA`South-eastern Asia	47.91	42.219	55.099
34	Brazil`BRA`South America	47.56	41.476	54.529
35	Peru`PER`South America	47.26	42.620	52.262
36	Tanzania`TZA`Eastern Africa	47.21	39.749	55.556
37	Sudan`SDN`Northern Africa	46.82	40.597	53.705
38	Mexico`MEX`Central America	44.84	39.424	50.867
39	Dominican Republic`DOM`Caribbean	40.41	35.576	45.806
40	Kenya`KEN`Eastern Africa	39.78	35.512	44.572
41	Botswana`BWA`Southern Africa	36.36	29.569	44.675
42	Zambia`ZMB`Eastern Africa	36.23	30.845	42.230
43	Belize`BLZ`Central America	35.44	24.336	50.942
44	Guyana`GUY`South America	35.16	29.159	42.550
45	Madagascar`MDG`Eastern Africa	34.56	28.240	41.946
46	Panama`PAN`Central America	34.32	25.996	43.550
47	Zimbabwe`ZWE`Eastern Africa	33.56	27.981	40.118
48	Sri Lanka`LKA`Southern Asia	33.28	30.876	35.795
49	Trinidad and Tobago`TTO`Caribbean	32.26	27.683	37.578
50	Jordan`JOR`Western Asia	32.02	28.502	35.817
51	Colombia`COL`South America	31.57	28.123	35.077
52	Chile`CHL`South America	31.25	30.097	32.407
53	Paraguay`PRY`South America	30.91	26.328	36.190
54	Namibia`NAM`Southern Africa	30.22	22.401	40.274
55	Barbados`BRB`Caribbean	29.72	27.848	31.645
56	Mauritius`MUS`Eastern Africa	29.65	27.931	31.359
57	Hungary`HUN`Eastern Europe	27.77	26.933	28.635
58	Costa Rica`CRI`Central America	27.56	24.624	31.064
59	Jamaica`JAM`Caribbean	25.69	21.325	30.925
60	Philippines`PHL`South-eastern Asia	25.15	21.994	28.899
61	Portugal`PRT`Southern Europe	24.93	23.899	25.985
62	South Korea`KOR`Eastern Asia	24.79	21.679	28.548
63	Cuba`CUB`Caribbean	21.48	18.953	24.580
64	Syria`SYR`Western Asia	21.41	17.841	25.462
65	Bahamas`BHS`Caribbean	20.94	18.443	23.688
66	Italy`ITA`Southern Europe	20.65	20.093	21.200
67	Greece`GRC`Southern Europe	20.45	19.845	21.066
68	Dominica`DMA`Caribbean	19.43	17.025	22.020
69	Austria`AUT`Western Europe	18.86	18.330	19.393
70	Poland`POL`Eastern Europe	18.68	18.113	19.259
71	Spain`ESP`Southern Europe	18.29	17.652	18.932
72	Malaysia`MYS`South-eastern Asia	16.37	13.820	18.991
73	Singapore`SGP`South-eastern Asia	15.61	14.936	16.270
74	United States`USA`Northern America	15.49	15.150	15.832
75	Belgium`BEL`Western Europe	14.62	14.181	15.041
76	Germany`DEU`Western Europe	14.41	13.852	14.970
77	Canada`CAN`Northern America	13.88	13.514	14.247
78	Ireland`IRL`Northern Europe	13.77	13.291	14.254
79	Bulgaria`BGR`Eastern Europe	13.69	13.178	14.205
80	Luxembourg`LUX`Western Europe	13.27	11.992	14.573
81	Australia`AUS`Australia and New Zealand	12.79	12.396	13.191
82	United Kingdom`GBR`Northern Europe	12.36	12.033	12.691
83	Denmark`DNK`Northern Europe	11.63	11.248	12.016
84	Switzerland`CHE`Western Europe	11.52	11.176	11.869
85	Finland`FIN`Northern Europe	10.91	10.553	11.262
86	New Zealand`NZL`Australia and New Zealand	10.85	10.432	11.282
87	Norway`NOR`Northern Europe	10.09	9.726	10.462
88	France`FRA`Western Europe	9.98	9.612	10.353
89	Iceland`ISL`Northern Europe	9.91	8.999	10.911
90	Netherlands`NLD`Western Europe	9.82	9.560	10.091
91	Sweden`SWE`Northern Europe	9.64	9.363	9.912
92	Japan`JPN`Eastern Asia	9.15	8.886	9.409

02In 1969

At either end

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

Highest

1Mali99.53
2Liberia92.98
3Bangladesh92.73
4Nepal89.02
5India85.29

Lowest

92Japan9.15
91Sweden9.64
90Netherlands9.82
89Iceland9.91
88France9.98

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 33.94. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

Lower bound (90% uncertainty)
HighestMali85.387
LowestJapan8.886
Middle country: 28.371
Upper bound (90% uncertainty)
HighestMali115.765
LowestJapan9.409
Middle country: 41.110

03Caveats

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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, so a change from one year to the next is not a revision. It can differ from what was first published for 1969.
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Every one of the 92 countries has every column.

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UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME) (1969). Neonatal Mortality Rate, 1969 [data set], describing 1969. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/neonatal-mortality/1969

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