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Neonatal Mortality Rate, 2005

2005, 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, 2005 covers 200 countries on 3 measures. Afghanistan is highest, at 55.391; Singapore is lowest, at 1.256. The middle country reads 13.116. Against 2004, 200 values changed (19 up, 181 down), the same countries are covered.

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Neonatal Mortality Rate · Data for 2005

HighestAfghanistan

55.391

LowestSingapore

1.256

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, 2005, 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, 2005: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
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1AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia55.39150.5710360.7559
2PakistanPAKSouthern Asia52.66849.3800356.0615
3Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa51.03543.4733860.0636
4South SudanSSDEastern Africa48.92336.1343166.5080
5SomaliaSOMEastern Africa45.74231.8708866.6860
6Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa44.46339.4113550.3578
7MaliMLIWestern Africa44.41039.9326749.0983
8EthiopiaETHEastern Africa43.21439.3396947.4659
9Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa41.79432.6239553.2733
10NigeriaNGAWestern Africa40.02136.2231644.0280
11LiberiaLBRWestern Africa39.94335.2351445.2491
12DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa39.92331.7025350.2126
13ChadTCDMiddle Africa39.48033.8296445.4830
14Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa39.44633.3220846.1376
15GuineaGINWestern Africa39.31734.6459144.2712
16LesothoLSOSouthern Africa38.70534.9507942.7056
17Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa38.18634.0739942.6389
18NigerNERWestern Africa37.51832.5868742.9017
19IndiaINDSouthern Asia37.35834.9899039.7460
20GambiaGMBWestern Africa36.73831.9199242.1415
21Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa35.47530.7005440.7283
22BeninBENWestern Africa35.02831.2165739.0521
23BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia34.90633.1514436.6104
24MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa33.99730.0980737.9162
25SudanSDNNorthern Africa33.33529.2809237.8634

02In 2005

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Afghanistan55.391
  2. 2Pakistan52.668
  3. 3Guinea-Bissau51.035
  4. 4South Sudan48.923
  5. 5Somalia45.742

Lowest

  1. 200Singapore1.256
  2. 199Japan1.414
  3. 198Iceland1.553
  4. 197San Marino1.595
  5. 196Luxembourg1.761

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 13.116. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestAfghanistan50.57103

    LowestSan Marino0.85014

    Middle country: 11.16257

  • Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestSomalia66.6860

    LowestSingapore1.3864

    Middle country: 15.0586

032004 → 2005

Since 2004

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

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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 2005.

  • 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) (2005). Neonatal Mortality Rate, 2005 [data set], describing 2005. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/neonatal-mortality/2005

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