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Neonatal Mortality Rate, 2022

2022, 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, 2022 covers 200 countries on 3 measures. South Sudan is highest, at 39.5578; San Marino is lowest, at 0.5861. The middle country reads 8.7361. Against 2021, 200 values changed (31 up, 169 down), the same countries are covered.

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Neonatal Mortality Rate · Data for 2022

HighestSouth Sudan

39.5578

LowestSan Marino

0.5861

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, 2022, 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, 2022: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
derived
1South SudanSSDEastern Africa39.557811.249109.4365
2NigeriaNGAWestern Africa39.333533.44246.3546
3PakistanPAKSouthern Asia37.920831.17645.9365
4Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa36.453027.77248.6229
5SomaliaSOMEastern Africa36.112416.34082.1720
6AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia34.720626.85144.7882
7NigerNERWestern Africa33.620125.28144.9008
8Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa33.456418.47957.7278
9LiberiaLBRWestern Africa33.239926.22741.5717
10ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa33.071825.38042.5387
11ChadTCDMiddle Africa31.501220.33347.8675
12GuineaGINWestern Africa30.817722.12542.5282
13DominicaDMACaribbean30.542226.49335.1907
14LesothoLSOSouthern Africa29.655521.79839.6257
15MaliMLIWestern Africa29.493024.43435.3353
16Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa29.356222.07738.4098
17Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa28.484222.57735.6471
18DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa28.392914.87853.1512
19BeninBENWestern Africa28.222121.19337.1425
20Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa27.373312.34954.6350
21EthiopiaETHEastern Africa26.865319.93135.9536
22EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa26.009016.98740.7663
23MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa25.953620.61732.8270
24CameroonCMRMiddle Africa25.744018.75235.1682
25Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa24.678214.69240.1005

02In 2022

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1South Sudan39.5578
  2. 2Nigeria39.3335
  3. 3Pakistan37.9208
  4. 4Central African Republic36.4530
  5. 5Somalia36.1124

Lowest

  1. 200San Marino0.5861
  2. 199Belarus0.8192
  3. 198Japan0.8317
  4. 197Montenegro0.9415
  5. 196Estonia1.0230

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 8.7361. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestNigeria33.442

    LowestSan Marino0.147

    Middle country: 5.878

  • Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestSouth Sudan109.4365

    LowestJapan0.8650

    Middle country: 11.3758

032021 → 2022

Since 2021

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 200values changed, of 200 in both
  • 31 · 169rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • India19.5286 → 18.4941−1.0346
  • Pakistan38.8843 → 37.9208−0.9635
  • Afghanistan35.6078 → 34.7206−0.8872
  • Mali30.3000 → 29.4930−0.8070
  • Senegal23.1796 → 22.4054−0.7742

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 2022.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 200 countries has every column.

05The files

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What this site changed: Reshaped to one row per country, with its ISO code; no value recalculated, rescaled or rounded. In full

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Cite this edition

UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME) (2022). Neonatal Mortality Rate, 2022 [data set], describing 2022. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/neonatal-mortality/2022

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