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Neonatal Mortality Rate, 2018

2018, 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, 2018 covers 200 countries on 3 measures. Pakistan is highest, at 41.809; San Marino is lowest, at 0.705. The middle country reads 9.596. Against 2017, 200 values changed (38 up, 162 down), the same countries are covered.

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Neonatal Mortality Rate · Data for 2018

HighestPakistan

41.809

LowestSan Marino

0.705

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, 2018, 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, 2018: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
derived
1PakistanPAKSouthern Asia41.80936.82347.3088
2South SudanSSDEastern Africa40.00715.85187.8948
3NigeriaNGAWestern Africa38.73734.56543.6638
4AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia38.37632.11545.1980
5SomaliaSOMEastern Africa38.30918.94079.2547
6Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa36.49423.11556.2271
7NigerNERWestern Africa34.34528.13942.2850
8ChadTCDMiddle Africa33.83924.47845.3392
9LiberiaLBRWestern Africa33.68328.41839.9383
10Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa33.08325.45542.4758
11MaliMLIWestern Africa32.84528.76037.5263
12GuineaGINWestern Africa32.55225.91340.3852
13LesothoLSOSouthern Africa32.08826.95738.1106
14Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa31.76425.83038.3154
15DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa31.13718.37151.6319
16Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa30.55425.98035.7444
17BeninBENWestern Africa30.22224.86635.9157
18Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa29.84415.19352.6402
19EthiopiaETHEastern Africa29.54624.46135.7284
20ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa29.41825.03834.8581
21DominicaDMACaribbean28.26825.44231.5796
22CameroonCMRMiddle Africa27.82622.75434.1924
23EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa27.05719.92137.6323
24MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa26.67522.94531.3089
25GambiaGMBWestern Africa26.66421.50232.7345

02In 2018

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Pakistan41.809
  2. 2South Sudan40.007
  3. 3Nigeria38.737
  4. 4Afghanistan38.376
  5. 5Somalia38.309

Lowest

  1. 200San Marino0.705
  2. 199Japan0.862
  3. 198Singapore1.036
  4. 197Estonia1.209
  5. 196Belarus1.229

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 9.596. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestPakistan36.823

    LowestSan Marino0.208

    Middle country: 7.451

  • Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestSouth Sudan87.8948

    LowestJapan0.8954

    Middle country: 12.0634

032017 → 2018

Since 2017

  • +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 2018.

  • 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) (2018). Neonatal Mortality Rate, 2018 [data set], describing 2018. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/neonatal-mortality/2018

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