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Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1958

1958, as UN IGME’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1958 covers 126 countries on 3 measures. Yemen is highest, at 449.17; Sweden is lowest, at 20.24. The middle country reads 140.49. Against 1957, 118 values changed (4 up, 114 down), 8 countries joined.

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Under-Five Mortality Rate · Data for 1958

HighestYemen

449.17

LowestSweden

20.24

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, 1958, 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 126 countries · select a heading to sort

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1958: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
derived
1YemenYEMWestern Asia449.17372.11540.53
2Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa401.37346.56467.48
3GambiaGMBWestern Africa374.78311.20447.66
4AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia362.07295.61443.29
5South SudanSSDEastern Africa357.44279.94469.69
6Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa350.78303.94400.58
7GuineaGINWestern Africa350.10302.75406.36
8EgyptEGYNorthern Africa344.40308.33384.01
9Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa335.96287.12394.13
10NepalNPLSouthern Asia335.42291.65386.04
11BeninBENWestern Africa316.61288.03350.57
12LibyaLBYNorthern Africa314.97249.87397.26
13LiberiaLBRWestern Africa307.66267.36356.57
14HaitiHTICaribbean304.06259.01355.88
15CameroonCMRMiddle Africa300.35258.06348.04
16SenegalSENWestern Africa298.16268.41331.46
17BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia278.37251.97309.16
18PakistanPAKSouthern Asia272.70243.16304.86
19MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa270.60234.08314.37
20ChadTCDMiddle Africa269.86237.65305.76
21TürkiyeTURWestern Asia267.73242.27298.55
22TogoTGOWestern Africa264.33242.26289.13
23MoroccoMARNorthern Africa255.07224.20292.25
24IndiaINDSouthern Asia248.41223.57274.82
25PeruPERSouth America244.37221.15270.28

02In 1958

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Yemen449.17
  2. 2Sierra Leone401.37
  3. 3Gambia374.78
  4. 4Afghanistan362.07
  5. 5South Sudan357.44

Lowest

  1. 126Sweden20.24
  2. 125Netherlands22.21
  3. 124Iceland22.29
  4. 123Norway23.92
  5. 122Australia26.01

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 140.49. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestYemen372.11

    LowestSweden19.85

    Middle country: 121.70

  • Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestYemen540.53

    LowestSweden20.66

    Middle country: 160.22

031957 → 1958

Since 1957

What changed between 1957 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +8 / −0countries joined / left
  • 118values changed, of 118 in both
  • 4 · 114rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Libya335.90 → 314.97−20.93
  • Bahrain253.33 → 233.67−19.67
  • Iraq228.29 → 214.54−13.75
  • Mauritius122.10 → 109.80−12.31
  • Syria204.95 → 193.34−11.61
+ Belarus+ Cuba+ Estonia+ Micronesia+ Lithuania+ Latvia+ Montserrat+ Russia

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 1958.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 126 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) (1958). Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1958 [data set], describing 1958. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/under-five-mortality/1958

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07Questions

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1958: questions and answers

Which country has the highest under-five mortality rate in Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1958?

Yemen, at 449.17, of the 126 countries in the file.

What year does Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1958 describe?

1958.

How many countries does Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1958 cover?

126.

Where can I download Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1958?

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, 1958 the newest?

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

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