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Neonatal Mortality Rate, 2001

2001, 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, 2001 covers 200 countries on 3 measures. Afghanistan is highest, at 60.881; Singapore is lowest, at 1.498. The middle country reads 15.117. Against 2000, 200 values changed (18 up, 182 down), the same countries are covered.

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Neonatal Mortality Rate · Data for 2001

HighestAfghanistan

60.881

LowestSingapore

1.498

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, 2001, 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, 2001: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
derived
1AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia60.88155.448067.0082
2PakistanPAKSouthern Asia56.03752.614959.5550
3South SudanSSDEastern Africa54.22039.985173.4096
4Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa54.17446.147262.6776
5MaliMLIWestern Africa49.94545.015655.3447
6LiberiaLBRWestern Africa47.57541.792154.0449
7Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa47.27741.996753.4072
8EthiopiaETHEastern Africa47.04942.515451.7960
9Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa45.58536.553157.4380
10SomaliaSOMEastern Africa45.12032.670362.3459
11NigeriaNGAWestern Africa44.77140.613249.0706
12GuineaGINWestern Africa44.09138.999549.5027
13ChadTCDMiddle Africa42.66937.340648.6652
14NigerNERWestern Africa42.55636.934348.6053
15IndiaINDSouthern Asia42.46739.939345.0321
16Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa42.18735.999648.9387
17DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa42.07033.784551.4856
18MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa41.82137.261846.5767
19BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia41.34739.287143.4627
20RwandaRWAEastern Africa40.25736.348744.5117
21Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa40.22635.751044.9024
22GambiaGMBWestern Africa39.45834.068944.8215
23Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa39.29134.398844.7272
24NepalNPLSouthern Asia38.10735.115341.3868
25AngolaAGOMiddle Africa38.06431.268345.5536

02In 2001

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Afghanistan60.881
  2. 2Pakistan56.037
  3. 3South Sudan54.220
  4. 4Guinea-Bissau54.174
  5. 5Mali49.945

Lowest

  1. 200Singapore1.498
  2. 199Japan1.710
  3. 198Iceland1.917
  4. 197Luxembourg2.252
  5. 196Sweden2.276

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 15.117. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

032000 → 2001

Since 2000

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 200values changed, of 200 in both
  • 18 · 182rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

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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 2001.

  • 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) (2001). Neonatal Mortality Rate, 2001 [data set], describing 2001. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/neonatal-mortality/2001

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