Data for 1954

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1954

Name: Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1954
Creator: UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME)
License: https://data.unicef.org/

1954, as UN IGME’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1954 covers 97 countries on 3 measures. South Sudan is highest, at 368.4; Sweden is lowest, at 22.3. The middle country reads 149.9. Against 1953, 89 values changed (2 up, 87 down), 8 countries joined.

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Under-Five Mortality Rate · Data for 1954

HighestSouth Sudan

368.4

LowestSweden

22.3

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

97countries
3measures per country
1954the year it describes
97distinct 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, 1954, 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, 1954: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
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1	South Sudan`SSD`Eastern Africa	368.4	289.02	481.12
2	Burkina Faso`BFA`Western Africa	366.1	321.82	415.34
3	Guinea`GIN`Western Africa	355.2	310.76	404.95
4	Cameroon`CMR`Middle Africa	345.8	286.56	414.61
5	Nepal`NPL`Southern Asia	340.3	288.25	402.26
6	Benin`BEN`Western Africa	332.5	300.85	369.00
7	Pakistan`PAK`Southern Asia	321.4	278.60	367.95
8	Senegal`SEN`Western Africa	315.2	283.70	351.63
9	Bangladesh`BGD`Southern Asia	312.8	275.59	356.41
10	Liberia`LBR`Western Africa	302.5	229.15	400.73
11	Mauritania`MRT`Western Africa	292.7	250.77	343.94
12	Türkiye`TUR`Western Asia	286.2	246.77	332.42
13	Peru`PER`South America	283.9	248.88	322.34
14	Iraq`IRQ`Western Asia	276.5	241.44	317.79
15	Chad`TCD`Middle Africa	274.0	241.43	310.82
16	Togo`TGO`Western Africa	272.6	249.44	297.88
17	Indonesia`IDN`South-eastern Asia	268.2	238.05	300.36
18	Kenya`KEN`Eastern Africa	267.9	235.90	304.95
19	Gabon`GAB`Middle Africa	265.1	230.09	310.07
20	India`IND`Southern Asia	264.2	225.80	306.81
21	Tanzania`TZA`Eastern Africa	251.7	213.37	296.45
22	Uganda`UGA`Eastern Africa	249.1	192.91	318.88
23	Syria`SYR`Western Asia	246.8	210.34	289.16
24	Republic of the Congo`COG`Middle Africa	246.2	210.49	287.32
25	Algeria`DZA`Northern Africa	243.1	179.92	320.04
26	Papua New Guinea`PNG`Melanesia	236.3	209.04	266.39
27	Ghana`GHA`Western Africa	230.7	202.38	261.56
28	Zambia`ZMB`Eastern Africa	229.2	180.77	293.10
29	Eswatini`SWZ`Southern Africa	227.4	196.61	262.09
30	Tuvalu`TUV`Polynesia	225.1	174.22	294.25
31	Jordan`JOR`Western Asia	220.6	199.76	244.16
32	Lesotho`LSO`Southern Africa	216.2	189.33	250.14
33	Kiribati`KIR`Micronesia	216.1	192.11	242.82
34	Mexico`MEX`Central America	207.6	177.46	243.61
35	Solomon Islands`SLB`Melanesia	206.4	184.88	230.98
36	Botswana`BWA`Southern Africa	201.4	131.03	318.19
37	Brazil`BRA`South America	200.4	178.43	225.50
38	Sudan`SDN`Northern Africa	197.1	170.32	225.73
39	South Korea`KOR`Eastern Asia	196.6	170.03	227.60
40	Cabo Verde`CPV`Western Africa	190.8	157.97	230.85
41	Thailand`THA`South-eastern Asia	180.6	159.14	204.88
42	Vanuatu`VUT`Melanesia	172.8	141.94	212.85
43	North Korea`PRK`Eastern Asia	169.0	132.38	216.44
44	Zimbabwe`ZWE`Eastern Africa	166.9	116.74	238.31
45	Colombia`COL`South America	166.6	142.26	195.13
46	Cook Islands`COK`Polynesia	161.8	134.76	200.04
47	Saint Lucia`LCA`Caribbean	160.3	151.64	169.48
48	Barbados`BRB`Caribbean	150.0	144.46	155.66
49	Chile`CHL`South America	149.9	138.49	163.13
50	Dominican Republic`DOM`Caribbean	147.6	128.99	167.06
51	Brunei`BRN`South-eastern Asia	145.9	125.40	169.15
52	Malaysia`MYS`South-eastern Asia	136.5	119.54	155.76
53	Samoa`WSM`Polynesia	136.1	121.92	151.84
54	Portugal`PRT`Southern Europe	130.9	126.22	135.82
55	Philippines`PHL`South-eastern Asia	130.4	107.43	158.51
56	Grenada`GRD`Caribbean	128.2	120.69	136.00
57	Guyana`GUY`South America	127.1	105.75	153.77
58	Sri Lanka`LKA`Southern Asia	125.6	118.30	133.34
59	Costa Rica`CRI`Central America	124.6	119.67	129.60
60	Niue`NIU`Polynesia	120.7	101.11	143.94
61	Jamaica`JAM`Caribbean	112.8	93.25	137.22
62	Seychelles`SYC`Eastern Africa	111.8	97.38	128.36
63	Panama`PAN`Central America	111.1	94.04	130.50
64	Fiji`FJI`Melanesia	107.2	96.10	119.10
65	Antigua and Barbuda`ATG`Caribbean	104.9	98.99	111.35
66	Bulgaria`BGR`Eastern Europe	103.6	96.77	110.85
67	Venezuela`VEN`South America	103.3	79.73	135.30
68	Poland`POL`Eastern Europe	102.2	95.86	108.97
69	Trinidad and Tobago`TTO`Caribbean	83.4	67.11	105.77
70	Singapore`SGP`South-eastern Asia	78.0	72.78	83.83
71	Spain`ESP`Southern Europe	71.8	70.25	73.28
72	Hungary`HUN`Eastern Europe	70.6	67.44	73.60
73	Slovakia`SVK`Eastern Europe	66.2	62.27	70.35
74	Italy`ITA`Southern Europe	65.3	63.88	66.72
75	Malta`MLT`Southern Europe	64.7	61.55	68.00
76	Japan`JPN`Eastern Asia	62.7	61.47	63.93
77	Israel`ISR`Western Asia	61.6	56.85	66.58
78	Uruguay`URY`South America	60.5	58.52	62.60
79	Austria`AUT`Western Europe	56.3	54.20	58.38
80	Greece`GRC`Southern Europe	52.7	50.00	55.66
81	Luxembourg`LUX`Western Europe	48.2	45.41	51.18
82	Belgium`BEL`Western Europe	48.1	46.86	49.39
83	Ireland`IRL`Northern Europe	44.9	43.95	45.85
84	France`FRA`Western Europe	43.1	42.29	43.99
85	Canada`CAN`Northern America	39.9	39.14	40.64
86	Czechia`CZE`Eastern Europe	38.5	35.91	41.16
87	Finland`FIN`Northern Europe	37.3	36.59	38.06
88	United States`USA`Northern America	33.8	33.20	34.37
89	Switzerland`CHE`Western Europe	33.1	32.43	33.72
90	New Zealand`NZL`Australia and New Zealand	32.1	31.53	32.72
91	United Kingdom`GBR`Northern Europe	30.8	30.16	31.39
92	Denmark`DNK`Northern Europe	30.5	29.89	31.18
93	Australia`AUS`Australia and New Zealand	28.7	28.15	29.29
94	Norway`NOR`Northern Europe	26.6	26.05	27.19
95	Netherlands`NLD`Western Europe	26.3	25.88	26.81
96	Iceland`ISL`Northern Europe	25.3	23.95	26.82
97	Sweden`SWE`Northern Europe	22.3	21.89	22.81

02In 1954

At either end

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

Highest

1South Sudan368.4
2Burkina Faso366.1
3Guinea355.2
4Cameroon345.8
5Nepal340.3

Lowest

97Sweden22.3
96Iceland25.3
95Netherlands26.3
94Norway26.6
93Australia28.7

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 149.9. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

Lower bound (90% uncertainty)
HighestBurkina Faso321.82
LowestSweden21.89
Middle country: 128.99
Upper bound (90% uncertainty)
HighestSouth Sudan481.12
LowestSweden22.81
Middle country: 167.06

031953 → 1954

Since 1953

What changed between 1953 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

+8 / −0countries joined / left
89values changed, of 89 in both
2 · 87rose · fell
0unchanged

Rose most

Dominican Republic147.0 → 147.6+0.6
Uruguay60.5 → 60.5+0.1

Fell most

North Korea218.0 → 169.0−49.0
South Korea227.6 → 196.6−31.0
Iraq294.4 → 276.5−17.9
Syria263.0 → 246.8−16.2
Kenya283.6 → 267.9−15.7

+ Botswana

+ Chile

+ Algeria

+ Liberia

+ Singapore

+ South Sudan

+ Tuvalu

+ Zimbabwe

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

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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 1954.
The position is ours
UN IGME publishes values only; the order is this site’s.
Nothing missing
Every one of the 97 countries has every column.

05The files

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Cite this edition

UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME) (1954). Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1954 [data set], describing 1954. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/under-five-mortality/1954

0673 held

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