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Neonatal Mortality Rate, 2007

2007, 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, 2007 covers 200 countries on 3 measures. Afghanistan is highest, at 52.447; Singapore is lowest, at 1.210. The middle country reads 12.515. Against 2006, 200 values changed (17 up, 183 down), the same countries are covered.

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Neonatal Mortality Rate · Data for 2007

HighestAfghanistan

52.447

LowestSingapore

1.210

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, 2007, 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, 2007: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
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1AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia52.44747.90857.4540
2PakistanPAKSouthern Asia51.33847.94454.9254
3Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa49.03841.21458.2912
4South SudanSSDEastern Africa46.34832.16666.0335
5SomaliaSOMEastern Africa45.43030.73067.8731
6Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa42.49737.67248.0400
7MaliMLIWestern Africa42.27137.89447.0060
8EthiopiaETHEastern Africa41.03237.35345.2132
9DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa38.81330.60749.4170
10Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa38.79529.44450.1223
11NigeriaNGAWestern Africa38.77935.17342.6451
12ChadTCDMiddle Africa38.51532.85744.6083
13LesothoLSOSouthern Africa38.32234.36642.6980
14Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa37.97131.76344.7282
15GuineaGINWestern Africa37.54632.98742.6153
16LiberiaLBRWestern Africa37.31432.58642.3713
17Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa37.10833.07641.4920
18NigerNERWestern Africa35.87331.15841.0863
19GambiaGMBWestern Africa35.15530.45240.5454
20IndiaINDSouthern Asia35.10332.86037.4126
21BeninBENWestern Africa34.32830.54338.3694
22Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa33.18828.58138.4628
23CameroonCMRMiddle Africa32.60928.78236.7901
24BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia32.26330.66133.8823
25SudanSDNNorthern Africa32.06728.03536.7066

02In 2007

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Afghanistan52.447
  2. 2Pakistan51.338
  3. 3Guinea-Bissau49.038
  4. 4South Sudan46.348
  5. 5Somalia45.430

Lowest

  1. 200Singapore1.210
  2. 199Japan1.289
  3. 198San Marino1.363
  4. 197Iceland1.434
  5. 196Luxembourg1.617

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 12.515. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestPakistan47.944

    LowestSan Marino0.655

    Middle country: 10.340

  • Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestSomalia67.8731

    LowestJapan1.3361

    Middle country: 14.1681

032006 → 2007

Since 2006

  • +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 2007.

  • 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) (2007). Neonatal Mortality Rate, 2007 [data set], describing 2007. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/neonatal-mortality/2007

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