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Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1956

1956, as UN IGME’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1956 covers 115 countries on 3 measures. Sierra Leone is highest, at 413.83; Sweden is lowest, at 21.08. The middle country reads 152.79. Against 1955, 105 values changed (4 up, 101 down), 10 countries joined.

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Under-Five Mortality Rate · Data for 1956

HighestSierra Leone

413.83

LowestSweden

21.08

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, 1956, 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 115 countries · select a heading to sort

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1956: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
derived
1Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa413.83341.08504.68
2GambiaGMBWestern Africa389.82309.62482.28
3EgyptEGYNorthern Africa364.06319.92413.22
4South SudanSSDEastern Africa362.94290.60465.30
5Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa358.74313.62407.88
6LibyaLBYNorthern Africa358.70262.80491.00
7GuineaGINWestern Africa353.22306.58406.26
8Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa353.01296.50422.17
9NepalNPLSouthern Asia338.37291.20394.50
10BeninBENWestern Africa324.83294.83358.86
11CameroonCMRMiddle Africa321.64273.57376.59
12HaitiHTICaribbean314.88260.44377.75
13SenegalSENWestern Africa305.30274.47340.21
14LiberiaLBRWestern Africa304.40250.94371.90
15PakistanPAKSouthern Asia295.60260.37333.62
16BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia294.82263.34331.32
17MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa282.13242.21331.29
18TürkiyeTURWestern Asia277.86247.11314.87
19BahrainBHRWestern Asia274.77217.24352.73
20ChadTCDMiddle Africa272.09239.91308.07
21TogoTGOWestern Africa268.66246.28293.35
22MoroccoMARNorthern Africa265.97226.56312.99
23PeruPERSouth America261.14233.30292.32
24IndiaINDSouthern Asia256.03225.50289.24
25IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia252.42227.26279.11

02In 1956

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Sierra Leone413.83
  2. 2Gambia389.82
  3. 3Egypt364.06
  4. 4South Sudan362.94
  5. 5Burkina Faso358.74

Lowest

  1. 115Sweden21.08
  2. 114Iceland23.54
  3. 113Netherlands24.02
  4. 112Norway25.15
  5. 111Australia27.26

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 152.79. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestSierra Leone341.08

    LowestSweden20.67

    Middle country: 134.20

  • Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestSierra Leone504.68

    LowestSweden21.51

    Middle country: 176.14

031955 → 1956

Since 1955

What changed between 1955 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +10 / −0countries joined / left
  • 105values changed, of 105 in both
  • 4 · 101rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Gambia+ Honduras+ Haiti+ Lebanon+ Libya+ Morocco+ Mauritius+ Paraguay+ Rwanda+ Sierra Leone

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 1956.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 115 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) (1956). Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1956 [data set], describing 1956. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/under-five-mortality/1956

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07Questions

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1956: questions and answers

Which country has the highest under-five mortality rate in Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1956?

Sierra Leone, at 413.83, of the 115 countries in the file.

What year does Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1956 describe?

1956.

How many countries does Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1956 cover?

115.

Where can I download Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1956?

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, 1956 the newest?

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

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