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Neonatal Mortality Rate, 1999

1999, 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, 1999 covers 200 countries on 3 measures. Afghanistan is highest, at 63.4104; Singapore is lowest, at 1.7389. The middle country reads 16.1933. Against 1998, 200 values changed (11 up, 189 down), the same countries are covered.

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Neonatal Mortality Rate · Data for 1999

HighestAfghanistan

63.4104

LowestSingapore

1.7389

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

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Neonatal Mortality Rate, 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

Neonatal Mortality Rate, 1999: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
derived
1AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia63.410457.519369.7309
2PakistanPAKSouthern Asia58.157654.686261.8177
3South SudanSSDEastern Africa56.864741.439176.4946
4Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa56.327148.136365.1677
5MaliMLIWestern Africa53.302548.315058.8296
6LiberiaLBRWestern Africa51.414045.220958.5128
7EthiopiaETHEastern Africa49.086144.251054.1921
8Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa48.619743.036155.0271
9GuineaGINWestern Africa48.515643.161754.4920
10NigeriaNGAWestern Africa47.298043.031151.9328
11MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa46.938341.904952.3728
12Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa46.601937.410058.0915
13RwandaRWAEastern Africa45.741141.185750.6759
14NigerNERWestern Africa45.443339.766651.6956
15BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia45.436943.112147.8265
16IndiaINDSouthern Asia45.178142.548947.8703
17ChadTCDMiddle Africa44.679539.155850.7868
18SomaliaSOMEastern Africa44.409132.265261.2772
19Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa43.653137.617350.7373
20DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa43.157335.025252.8329
21Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia42.488436.869948.8706
22Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa41.273736.778246.0879
23NepalNPLSouthern Asia41.240737.997544.6893
24GambiaGMBWestern Africa41.021035.424746.7468
25Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa40.772135.776046.4318

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. 1Afghanistan63.4104
  2. 2Pakistan58.1576
  3. 3South Sudan56.8647
  4. 4Guinea-Bissau56.3271
  5. 5Mali53.3025

Lowest

  1. 200Singapore1.7389
  2. 199Japan1.8206
  3. 198Iceland2.1567
  4. 197Sweden2.3244
  5. 196Luxembourg2.5145

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 16.1933. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestAfghanistan57.5193

    LowestSingapore1.5975

    Middle country: 13.5840

  • Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestSouth Sudan76.4946

    LowestJapan1.8816

    Middle country: 18.9566

031998 → 1999

Since 1998

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 200values changed, of 200 in both
  • 11 · 189rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

04Caveats

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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 1999.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 200 countries has every column.

05The files

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

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