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Neonatal Mortality Rate, 2014

2014, 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, 2014 covers 200 countries on 3 measures. Pakistan is highest, at 45.790; San Marino is lowest, at 0.889. The middle country reads 10.750. Against 2013, 200 values changed (36 up, 164 down), the same countries are covered.

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Neonatal Mortality Rate · Data for 2014

HighestPakistan

45.790

LowestSan Marino

0.889

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, 2014, 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, 2014: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
derived
1PakistanPAKSouthern Asia45.79041.881850.1675
2AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia42.70137.771648.1051
3SomaliaSOMEastern Africa40.99622.481876.0329
4South SudanSSDEastern Africa40.80721.000673.8505
5Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa40.15528.845955.2699
6NigeriaNGAWestern Africa37.77834.065441.8132
7MaliMLIWestern Africa36.11932.139840.4869
8ChadTCDMiddle Africa35.90028.789744.1803
9Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa35.38528.990542.8405
10Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa34.69429.949539.7434
11LesothoLSOSouthern Africa34.65330.393539.5851
12NigerNERWestern Africa34.35329.092440.5216
13GuineaGINWestern Africa34.13129.182539.7346
14LiberiaLBRWestern Africa34.11529.540839.5913
15DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa33.96122.689750.2983
16EthiopiaETHEastern Africa33.25829.422937.7094
17Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa32.79828.813037.3396
18Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa32.05919.065350.1504
19BeninBENWestern Africa31.82827.532236.4343
20CameroonCMRMiddle Africa29.96026.015234.4941
21GambiaGMBWestern Africa29.75425.236534.8574
22SudanSDNNorthern Africa28.74423.405435.1172
23Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa28.60721.087937.5449
24TogoTGOWestern Africa27.23122.920732.1166
25IndiaINDSouthern Asia27.09725.483628.7315

02In 2014

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Pakistan45.790
  2. 2Afghanistan42.701
  3. 3Somalia40.996
  4. 4South Sudan40.807
  5. 5Guinea-Bissau40.155

Lowest

  1. 200San Marino0.889
  2. 199Japan0.954
  3. 198Singapore1.081
  4. 197Iceland1.295
  5. 196Finland1.405

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 10.750. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestPakistan41.8818

    LowestSan Marino0.3069

    Middle country: 7.9554

  • Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestSomalia76.0329

    LowestJapan0.9903

    Middle country: 12.8937

032013 → 2014

Since 2013

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 200values changed, of 200 in both
  • 36 · 164rose · 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 2014.

  • 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) (2014). Neonatal Mortality Rate, 2014 [data set], describing 2014. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/neonatal-mortality/2014

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