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Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1955

1955, as UN IGME’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1955 covers 105 countries on 3 measures. Egypt is highest, at 374.04; Sweden is lowest, at 21.65. The middle country reads 152.60. Against 1954, 97 values changed (3 up, 94 down), 8 countries joined.

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Under-Five Mortality Rate · Data for 1955

HighestEgypt

374.04

LowestSweden

21.65

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, 1955, 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 105 countries · select a heading to sort

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1955: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
derived
1EgyptEGYNorthern Africa374.04324.1431.157
2South SudanSSDEastern Africa365.61292.0470.759
3Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa362.63318.1411.539
4Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa361.96299.8438.795
5GuineaGINWestern Africa354.27308.6405.657
6NepalNPLSouthern Asia339.44290.1397.994
7CameroonCMRMiddle Africa333.46280.6394.007
8BeninBENWestern Africa328.80298.0363.823
9SenegalSENWestern Africa310.02278.8345.705
10PakistanPAKSouthern Asia308.07269.5349.968
11BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia303.57269.3343.674
12LiberiaLBRWestern Africa303.28240.3384.562
13BahrainBHRWestern Asia298.43226.5397.833
14MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa287.50246.4337.840
15TürkiyeTURWestern Asia282.00247.5323.324
16ChadTCDMiddle Africa273.04240.8309.010
17PeruPERSouth America271.63240.7306.001
18TogoTGOWestern Africa270.73247.9295.443
19IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia260.15232.6289.382
20IndiaINDSouthern Asia260.03225.8297.675
21IraqIRQWestern Asia259.42226.4297.921
22GabonGABMiddle Africa257.09221.5303.048
23KenyaKENEastern Africa253.50225.7285.300
24TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa249.80215.5289.179
25UgandaUGAEastern Africa244.60197.5301.712

02In 1955

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Egypt374.04
  2. 2South Sudan365.61
  3. 3Burkina Faso362.63
  4. 4Côte d’Ivoire361.96
  5. 5Guinea354.27

Lowest

  1. 105Sweden21.65
  2. 104Iceland24.37
  3. 103Netherlands25.13
  4. 102Norway25.82
  5. 101Australia27.96

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 152.60. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestEgypt324.1

    LowestSweden21.2

    Middle country: 131.3

  • Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestSouth Sudan470.759

    LowestSweden22.097

    Middle country: 165.962

031954 → 1955

Since 1954

What changed between 1954 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +8 / −0countries joined / left
  • 97values changed, of 97 in both
  • 3 · 94rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Bahrain+ Côte d’Ivoire+ Ecuador+ Egypt+ Nicaragua+ Romania+ El Salvador+ British Virgin Islands

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 1955.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 105 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) (1955). Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1955 [data set], describing 1955. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/under-five-mortality/1955

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07Questions

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1955: questions and answers

Which country has the highest under-five mortality rate in Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1955?

Egypt, at 374.04, of the 105 countries in the file.

What year does Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1955 describe?

1955.

How many countries does Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1955 cover?

105.

Where can I download Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1955?

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, 1955 the newest?

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

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