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Neonatal Mortality Rate, 2006

2006, 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, 2006 covers 200 countries on 3 measures. Afghanistan is highest, at 53.927; Singapore is lowest, at 1.231. The middle country reads 12.911. Against 2005, 200 values changed (17 up, 183 down), the same countries are covered.

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Neonatal Mortality Rate · Data for 2006

HighestAfghanistan

53.927

LowestSingapore

1.231

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, 2006, 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, 2006: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
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1AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia53.92749.282459.0895
2PakistanPAKSouthern Asia52.00548.633355.4436
3Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa50.06942.476759.1367
4South SudanSSDEastern Africa47.72634.492565.6231
5SomaliaSOMEastern Africa45.74931.373667.5271
6Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa43.56338.702749.1755
7MaliMLIWestern Africa43.30638.805248.0654
8EthiopiaETHEastern Africa42.15938.396946.3770
9Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa40.38431.240251.5965
10DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa39.37431.163449.9049
11NigeriaNGAWestern Africa39.31135.595243.2501
12ChadTCDMiddle Africa38.93833.282344.9696
13Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa38.68532.587045.4230
14LesothoLSOSouthern Africa38.64234.786342.8507
15LiberiaLBRWestern Africa38.54033.828743.6847
16GuineaGINWestern Africa38.34133.652143.4094
17Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa37.68333.559742.1067
18NigerNERWestern Africa36.64631.782741.8838
19IndiaINDSouthern Asia36.22033.932038.5920
20GambiaGMBWestern Africa35.93731.304841.3355
21BeninBENWestern Africa34.65130.862838.6848
22Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa34.27129.624039.5059
23BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia33.53431.856235.1977
24CameroonCMRMiddle Africa32.89629.076337.1625
25MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa32.63128.933236.4594

02In 2006

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Afghanistan53.927
  2. 2Pakistan52.005
  3. 3Guinea-Bissau50.069
  4. 4South Sudan47.726
  5. 5Somalia45.749

Lowest

  1. 200Singapore1.231
  2. 199Japan1.344
  3. 198San Marino1.473
  4. 197Iceland1.489
  5. 196Luxembourg1.677

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 12.911. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestAfghanistan49.2824

    LowestSan Marino0.7529

    Middle country: 10.8098

  • Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestSomalia67.5271

    LowestSingapore1.3595

    Middle country: 14.5022

032005 → 2006

Since 2005

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 200values changed, of 200 in both
  • 17 · 183rose · 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 2006.

  • 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) (2006). Neonatal Mortality Rate, 2006 [data set], describing 2006. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/neonatal-mortality/2006

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