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Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1953

1953, as UN IGME’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1953 covers 89 countries on 3 measures. Burkina Faso is highest, at 369.66; Sweden is lowest, at 23.23. The middle country reads 144.39. Against 1952, 81 values changed (1 up, 80 down), 8 countries joined.

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Under-Five Mortality Rate · Data for 1953

HighestBurkina Faso

369.66

LowestSweden

23.23

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

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1953, 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 89 countries · select a heading to sort

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1953: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
derived
1Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa369.66325.994418.79
2CameroonCMRMiddle Africa358.71291.661440.23
3GuineaGINWestern Africa355.77312.083405.05
4NepalNPLSouthern Asia340.92286.257406.63
5BeninBENWestern Africa336.34303.073374.36
6PakistanPAKSouthern Asia335.32288.051387.48
7BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia322.77281.903371.17
8SenegalSENWestern Africa320.53288.354358.27
9MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa297.50255.153348.69
10PeruPERSouth America296.80256.148342.39
11IraqIRQWestern Asia294.41257.432338.42
12TürkiyeTURWestern Asia290.34244.280342.21
13KenyaKENEastern Africa283.62245.741327.97
14IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia276.36243.497311.80
15ChadTCDMiddle Africa275.03242.196312.33
16TogoTGOWestern Africa274.39250.552300.48
17GabonGABMiddle Africa273.45238.483317.01
18IndiaINDSouthern Asia268.20225.863317.31
19SyriaSYRWestern Asia262.99219.610316.02
20Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa254.67219.099296.09
21UgandaUGAEastern Africa253.91188.012341.52
22TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa253.31210.003305.69
23Papua New GuineaPNGMelanesia243.12212.771277.33
24GhanaGHAWestern Africa235.85206.817268.01
25ZambiaZMBEastern Africa233.80175.740312.56

02In 1953

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Burkina Faso369.66
  2. 2Cameroon358.71
  3. 3Guinea355.77
  4. 4Nepal340.92
  5. 5Benin336.34

Lowest

  1. 89Sweden23.23
  2. 88Iceland26.44
  3. 87Netherlands27.65
  4. 86Norway27.68
  5. 85Australia29.50

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 144.39. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestBurkina Faso325.994

    LowestSweden22.740

    Middle country: 126.549

  • Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestCameroon440.23

    LowestSweden23.72

    Middle country: 168.71

031952 → 1953

Since 1952

What changed between 1952 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +8 / −0countries joined / left
  • 81values changed, of 81 in both
  • 1 · 80rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Cameroon+ India+ Philippines+ Sudan+ Syria+ Trinidad and Tobago+ Türkiye+ Uganda

Both years come from the same release, so a difference here is a change in the data, not a revision of it. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

Read before you use

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 1953.

  • The position is ours

    UN IGME publishes values only; the order is this site’s.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 89 countries has every column.

05The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

Licence: CC BY 3.0 IGO · what it allows, in plain words

Cite this edition

UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME) (1953). Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1953 [data set], describing 1953. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/under-five-mortality/1953

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07Questions

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1953: questions and answers

Which country has the highest under-five mortality rate in Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1953?

Burkina Faso, at 369.66, of the 89 countries in the file.

What year does Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1953 describe?

1953.

How many countries does Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1953 cover?

89.

Where can I download Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1953?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1953 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2024.

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