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Neonatal Mortality Rate, 2002

2002, 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, 2002 covers 200 countries on 3 measures. Afghanistan is highest, at 59.5668; Singapore is lowest, at 1.4076. The middle country reads 14.4145. Against 2001, 200 values changed (19 up, 181 down), the same countries are covered.

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Neonatal Mortality Rate · Data for 2002

HighestAfghanistan

59.5668

LowestSingapore

1.4076

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, 2002, 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, 2002: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
derived
1AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia59.566854.32265.4879
2PakistanPAKSouthern Asia55.095551.76958.5056
3Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa53.328845.33161.7258
4South SudanSSDEastern Africa52.858638.86571.4662
5MaliMLIWestern Africa48.370043.62253.5809
6Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa46.555941.30252.7447
7EthiopiaETHEastern Africa46.069541.68750.6167
8LiberiaLBRWestern Africa45.498539.94651.4889
9SomaliaSOMEastern Africa45.426532.83863.0579
10Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa44.929035.92856.7917
11NigeriaNGAWestern Africa43.414039.31147.6198
12GuineaGINWestern Africa42.551837.66747.7624
13ChadTCDMiddle Africa41.718236.33547.6919
14DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa41.532033.25551.0482
15Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa41.508435.29748.2622
16IndiaINDSouthern Asia41.142338.62043.6455
17NigerNERWestern Africa41.090435.52147.0469
18Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa39.739435.37344.3877
19BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia39.496837.53041.4895
20MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa39.493935.16343.9853
21GambiaGMBWestern Africa38.767733.47344.2162
22Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa38.514833.77043.8198
23LesothoLSOSouthern Africa37.950134.37141.7914
24RwandaRWAEastern Africa37.434133.76641.3377
25AngolaAGOMiddle Africa37.006830.43544.3809

02In 2002

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Afghanistan59.5668
  2. 2Pakistan55.0955
  3. 3Guinea-Bissau53.3288
  4. 4South Sudan52.8586
  5. 5Mali48.3700

Lowest

  1. 200Singapore1.4076
  2. 199Japan1.6629
  3. 198Iceland1.8112
  4. 197San Marino2.1044
  5. 196Luxembourg2.1200

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 14.4145. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

032001 → 2002

Since 2001

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 200values changed, of 200 in both
  • 19 · 181rose · 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 2002.

  • 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) (2002). Neonatal Mortality Rate, 2002 [data set], describing 2002. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/neonatal-mortality/2002

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