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Neonatal Mortality Rate, 2016

2016, 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, 2016 covers 200 countries on 3 measures. Pakistan is highest, at 43.7990; San Marino is lowest, at 0.7937. The middle country reads 10.0705. Against 2015, 200 values changed (38 up, 162 down), the same countries are covered.

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Neonatal Mortality Rate · Data for 2016

HighestPakistan

43.7990

LowestSan Marino

0.7937

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, 2016, 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, 2016: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
derived
1PakistanPAKSouthern Asia43.799039.517448.556
2South SudanSSDEastern Africa42.322920.318181.904
3AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia40.442734.963346.436
4SomaliaSOMEastern Africa39.539320.561777.288
5NigeriaNGAWestern Africa38.209634.324842.603
6Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa38.182925.799855.485
7ChadTCDMiddle Africa34.953726.626244.576
8MaliMLIWestern Africa34.552230.583639.040
9NigerNERWestern Africa34.440928.769441.285
10LiberiaLBRWestern Africa33.933229.166439.812
11Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa33.812826.861142.026
12LesothoLSOSouthern Africa33.508429.088438.714
13GuineaGINWestern Africa33.240227.553839.762
14Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa33.093728.092238.527
15DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa32.497020.439151.194
16Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa31.681427.451236.398
17EthiopiaETHEastern Africa31.336626.934836.438
18BeninBENWestern Africa31.066226.315736.087
19Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa30.939517.135951.536
20CameroonCMRMiddle Africa28.937624.634634.171
21GambiaGMBWestern Africa28.202523.511233.582
22ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa27.863824.210732.226
23SudanSDNNorthern Africa27.649421.768034.940
24Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa27.570019.327838.004
25EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa26.796820.782534.982

02In 2016

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Pakistan43.7990
  2. 2South Sudan42.3229
  3. 3Afghanistan40.4427
  4. 4Somalia39.5393
  5. 5Nigeria38.2096

Lowest

  1. 200San Marino0.7937
  2. 199Japan0.8963
  3. 198Singapore1.0719
  4. 197Iceland1.3233
  5. 196Estonia1.3436

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 10.0705. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestPakistan39.5174

    LowestSan Marino0.2586

    Middle country: 7.9134

  • Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestSouth Sudan81.904

    LowestJapan0.932

    Middle country: 12.255

032015 → 2016

Since 2015

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 200values changed, of 200 in both
  • 38 · 162rose · 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 2016.

  • 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) (2016). Neonatal Mortality Rate, 2016 [data set], describing 2016. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/neonatal-mortality/2016

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