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Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1957

1957, as UN IGME’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1957 covers 118 countries on 3 measures. Yemen is highest, at 456.32; Sweden is lowest, at 20.62. The middle country reads 151.50. Against 1956, 115 values changed (4 up, 111 down), 3 countries joined.

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Under-Five Mortality Rate · Data for 1957

HighestYemen

456.32

LowestSweden

20.62

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, 1957, 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 118 countries · select a heading to sort

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1957: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
derived
1YemenYEMWestern Asia456.32370.171560.871
2Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa407.70344.469485.160
3GambiaGMBWestern Africa382.47310.714464.126
4AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia368.20293.176459.762
5South SudanSSDEastern Africa360.31286.398466.578
6Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa354.73308.542404.202
7EgyptEGYNorthern Africa354.33314.772398.088
8GuineaGINWestern Africa351.98304.466406.714
9Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa344.50291.942407.528
10NepalNPLSouthern Asia337.32291.932390.094
11LibyaLBYNorthern Africa335.90257.526440.061
12BeninBENWestern Africa320.85291.542354.792
13CameroonCMRMiddle Africa310.71265.372361.378
14HaitiHTICaribbean309.16259.933366.612
15LiberiaLBRWestern Africa306.02259.961363.035
16SenegalSENWestern Africa301.18270.811335.113
17BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia286.42257.545320.188
18PakistanPAKSouthern Asia283.74251.503318.754
19MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa276.43238.234322.959
20TürkiyeTURWestern Asia273.21245.427306.712
21ChadTCDMiddle Africa270.98238.988307.085
22TogoTGOWestern Africa266.55244.389291.084
23MoroccoMARNorthern Africa260.44225.717302.122
24BahrainBHRWestern Asia253.33206.878312.969
25IndiaINDSouthern Asia252.20224.558281.493

02In 1957

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Yemen456.32
  2. 2Sierra Leone407.70
  3. 3Gambia382.47
  4. 4Afghanistan368.20
  5. 5South Sudan360.31

Lowest

  1. 118Sweden20.62
  2. 117Iceland22.85
  3. 116Netherlands23.05
  4. 115Norway24.54
  5. 114Australia26.62

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 151.50. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestYemen370.171

    LowestSweden20.225

    Middle country: 137.800

  • Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestYemen560.871

    LowestSweden21.038

    Middle country: 170.876

031956 → 1957

Since 1956

What changed between 1956 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +3 / −0countries joined / left
  • 115values changed, of 115 in both
  • 4 · 111rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Afghanistan+ Guatemala+ Yemen

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 1957.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 118 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) (1957). Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1957 [data set], describing 1957. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/under-five-mortality/1957

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07Questions

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1957: questions and answers

Which country has the highest under-five mortality rate in Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1957?

Yemen, at 456.32, of the 118 countries in the file.

What year does Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1957 describe?

1957.

How many countries does Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1957 cover?

118.

Where can I download Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1957?

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, 1957 the newest?

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

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