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Neonatal Mortality Rate, 2017

2017, 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, 2017 covers 200 countries on 3 measures. Pakistan is highest, at 42.796; San Marino is lowest, at 0.747. The middle country reads 9.733. Against 2016, 200 values changed (39 up, 161 down), the same countries are covered.

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Neonatal Mortality Rate · Data for 2017

HighestPakistan

42.796

LowestSan Marino

0.747

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, 2017, 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, 2017: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
derived
1PakistanPAKSouthern Asia42.79638.207047.8715
2South SudanSSDEastern Africa42.64119.461486.1471
3AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia39.42733.550445.7263
4SomaliaSOMEastern Africa39.34120.070578.6047
5NigeriaNGAWestern Africa38.47834.508343.1224
6Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa37.27224.359755.6783
7NigerNERWestern Africa34.44128.514441.7605
8ChadTCDMiddle Africa34.37825.535844.8959
9Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa33.98826.612542.7711
10LiberiaLBRWestern Africa33.83328.840039.9270
11MaliMLIWestern Africa33.72229.720238.2391
12GuineaGINWestern Africa32.88026.643639.9708
13LesothoLSOSouthern Africa32.83728.043938.3421
14Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa32.40126.888938.3469
15DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa31.83719.432051.4204
16Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa31.11126.732736.0108
17BeninBENWestern Africa30.64625.614535.9293
18Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa30.47816.204351.9896
19EthiopiaETHEastern Africa30.40325.713936.1169
20ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa28.58324.547633.4830
21CameroonCMRMiddle Africa28.39023.772934.1570
22DominicaDMACaribbean27.47224.859230.4642
23GambiaGMBWestern Africa27.40322.490733.0750
24SudanSDNNorthern Africa27.12920.824435.1279
25Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa27.03718.436238.2824

02In 2017

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Pakistan42.796
  2. 2South Sudan42.641
  3. 3Afghanistan39.427
  4. 4Somalia39.341
  5. 5Nigeria38.478

Lowest

  1. 200San Marino0.747
  2. 199Japan0.878
  3. 198Singapore1.058
  4. 197Estonia1.272
  5. 196Iceland1.347

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 9.733. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestPakistan38.2070

    LowestSan Marino0.2328

    Middle country: 7.7074

  • Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestSouth Sudan86.1471

    LowestJapan0.9116

    Middle country: 11.7003

032016 → 2017

Since 2016

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 200values changed, of 200 in both
  • 39 · 161rose · 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 2017.

  • 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) (2017). Neonatal Mortality Rate, 2017 [data set], describing 2017. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/neonatal-mortality/2017

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