Data for 1952

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1952

Name: Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1952
Creator: UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME)
License: https://data.unicef.org/

1952, as UN IGME’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1952 covers 81 countries on 3 measures. Burkina Faso is highest, at 373.13; Sweden is lowest, at 24.34. The middle country reads 141.05.

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Under-Five Mortality Rate · Data for 1952

HighestBurkina Faso

373.13

LowestSweden

24.34

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the lowest end.

81countries
3measures per country
1952the year it describes
81distinct values13 decimals, as published
Sep 9, 2026read from the publisher
CC BY 3.0 IGOlicence

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1952, as published. UN IGME ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

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Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1952: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
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1	Burkina Faso`BFA`Western Africa	373.13	328.70	422.01
2	Guinea`GIN`Western Africa	355.79	313.66	403.28
3	Pakistan`PAK`Southern Asia	349.85	298.07	407.61
4	Nepal`NPL`Southern Asia	341.64	283.98	411.59
5	Benin`BEN`Western Africa	339.75	305.27	380.15
6	Bangladesh`BGD`Southern Asia	333.20	287.88	386.76
7	Senegal`SEN`Western Africa	326.33	292.67	365.43
8	Iraq`IRQ`Western Asia	313.77	273.78	360.62
9	Peru`PER`South America	310.13	263.00	365.34
10	Mauritania`MRT`Western Africa	301.82	259.72	352.89
11	Kenya`KEN`Eastern Africa	300.24	255.48	353.85
12	Indonesia`IDN`South-eastern Asia	284.65	248.48	324.32
13	Gabon`GAB`Middle Africa	282.22	246.24	324.55
14	Togo`TGO`Western Africa	276.30	251.27	303.21
15	Chad`TCD`Middle Africa	276.11	242.55	314.89
16	South Korea`KOR`Eastern Asia	266.08	227.06	312.44
17	North Korea`PRK`Eastern Asia	265.39	207.83	339.79
18	Republic of the Congo`COG`Middle Africa	262.80	226.35	304.69
19	Tanzania`TZA`Eastern Africa	255.18	205.26	316.20
20	Papua New Guinea`PNG`Melanesia	249.93	215.58	289.00
21	Jordan`JOR`Western Asia	246.30	221.48	274.78
22	Ghana`GHA`Western Africa	241.04	211.43	274.57
23	Zambia`ZMB`Eastern Africa	237.55	168.71	337.08
24	Eswatini`SWZ`Southern Africa	233.42	194.39	279.11
25	Lesotho`LSO`Southern Africa	232.56	192.56	290.98
26	Mexico`MEX`Central America	230.62	193.06	277.81
27	Solomon Islands`SLB`Melanesia	219.37	195.70	246.15
28	Kiribati`KIR`Micronesia	217.92	190.42	250.01
29	Brazil`BRA`South America	210.06	186.50	237.16
30	Cabo Verde`CPV`Western Africa	199.42	169.47	234.43
31	Thailand`THA`South-eastern Asia	193.45	166.92	223.49
32	Cook Islands`COK`Polynesia	181.76	142.78	243.01
33	Vanuatu`VUT`Melanesia	178.81	136.78	237.59
34	Colombia`COL`South America	178.18	146.70	216.69
35	Brunei`BRN`South-eastern Asia	171.82	148.40	198.34
36	Barbados`BRB`Caribbean	170.07	160.28	180.55
37	Saint Lucia`LCA`Caribbean	167.43	155.61	179.84
38	Malaysia`MYS`South-eastern Asia	152.88	130.88	177.95
39	Dominican Republic`DOM`Caribbean	146.38	123.28	171.02
40	Samoa`WSM`Polynesia	145.87	130.94	162.26
41	Guyana`GUY`South America	141.05	115.02	173.62
42	Portugal`PRT`Southern Europe	139.61	131.31	148.67
43	Grenada`GRD`Caribbean	138.62	129.44	148.49
44	Sri Lanka`LKA`Southern Asia	130.23	116.60	145.13
45	Costa Rica`CRI`Central America	128.66	120.84	136.74
46	Niue`NIU`Polynesia	126.90	108.09	149.38
47	Jamaica`JAM`Caribbean	125.63	99.36	160.33
48	Bulgaria`BGR`Eastern Europe	120.94	112.58	130.03
49	Panama`PAN`Central America	117.97	96.38	143.66
50	Fiji`FJI`Melanesia	117.59	105.79	130.64
51	Poland`POL`Eastern Europe	117.57	108.11	127.80
52	Seychelles`SYC`Eastern Africa	114.10	98.97	130.69
53	Venezuela`VEN`South America	113.45	80.68	161.13
54	Antigua and Barbuda`ATG`Caribbean	111.86	104.45	119.63
55	Slovakia`SVK`Eastern Europe	88.58	82.59	95.07
56	Spain`ESP`Southern Europe	83.48	81.70	85.24
57	Malta`MLT`Southern Europe	83.37	76.41	90.81
58	Hungary`HUN`Eastern Europe	82.45	77.07	88.26
59	Italy`ITA`Southern Europe	75.31	73.63	77.06
60	Japan`JPN`Eastern Asia	74.91	73.44	76.38
61	Israel`ISR`Western Asia	66.54	58.33	75.09
62	Austria`AUT`Western Europe	62.82	58.98	66.91
63	Uruguay`URY`South America	60.85	57.40	64.51
64	Greece`GRC`Southern Europe	55.98	50.45	62.27
65	Belgium`BEL`Western Europe	53.77	51.18	56.38
66	Luxembourg`LUX`Western Europe	51.90	48.54	55.54
67	Czechia`CZE`Eastern Europe	51.31	47.80	55.29
68	France`FRA`Western Europe	49.71	48.75	50.72
69	Ireland`IRL`Northern Europe	49.55	48.49	50.63
70	Canada`CAN`Northern America	43.84	43.06	44.70
71	Finland`FIN`Northern Europe	40.99	39.81	42.20
72	Switzerland`CHE`Western Europe	35.83	35.05	36.63
73	United States`USA`Northern America	35.62	34.99	36.27
74	New Zealand`NZL`Australia and New Zealand	33.88	33.25	34.56
75	United Kingdom`GBR`Northern Europe	33.57	32.91	34.26
76	Denmark`DNK`Northern Europe	32.62	31.89	33.38
77	Australia`AUS`Australia and New Zealand	30.27	29.66	30.88
78	Norway`NOR`Northern Europe	29.11	28.45	29.77
79	Netherlands`NLD`Western Europe	29.02	28.50	29.58
80	Iceland`ISL`Northern Europe	27.71	25.96	29.55
81	Sweden`SWE`Northern Europe	24.34	23.80	24.89

02In 1952

At either end

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

Highest

1Burkina Faso373.13
2Guinea355.79
3Pakistan349.85
4Nepal341.64
5Benin339.75

Lowest

81Sweden24.34
80Iceland27.71
79Netherlands29.02
78Norway29.11
77Australia30.27

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 141.05. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

Lower bound (90% uncertainty)
HighestBurkina Faso328.70
LowestSweden23.80
Middle country: 129.44
Upper bound (90% uncertainty)
HighestBurkina Faso422.01
LowestSweden24.89
Middle country: 162.26

03Caveats

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What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

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. It can differ from what was first published for 1952.
The position is ours
UN IGME publishes values only; the order is this site’s.
Nothing missing
Every one of the 81 countries has every column.

04The files

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UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME) (1952). Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1952 [data set], describing 1952. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/under-five-mortality/1952

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