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Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1959

1959, as UN IGME’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1959 covers 131 countries on 3 measures. Yemen is highest, at 441.97; Sweden is lowest, at 19.91. The middle country reads 139.48. Against 1958, 126 values changed (4 up, 122 down), 5 countries joined.

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Under-Five Mortality Rate · Data for 1959

HighestYemen

441.97

LowestSweden

19.91

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, 1959, 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 131 countries · select a heading to sort

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1959: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
derived
1YemenYEMWestern Asia441.97372.37523.115
2Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa395.83347.76451.717
3OmanOMNWestern Asia388.50293.19516.865
4GambiaGMBWestern Africa367.29310.67432.269
5AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia356.45297.24428.888
6South SudanSSDEastern Africa355.13272.92473.550
7GuineaGINWestern Africa348.37300.44405.818
8Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa346.86300.06396.880
9EgyptEGYNorthern Africa334.70301.01370.947
10NepalNPLSouthern Asia332.87291.01381.337
11Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa327.58281.73381.223
12BeninBENWestern Africa312.18284.29346.153
13LiberiaLBRWestern Africa308.94272.42352.750
14HaitiHTICaribbean298.92257.21346.681
15SenegalSENWestern Africa296.22267.88327.573
16LibyaLBYNorthern Africa295.45242.41361.815
17CameroonCMRMiddle Africa291.26251.07336.775
18Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa290.59224.78384.486
19BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia271.06246.31299.206
20ChadTCDMiddle Africa268.72236.39304.882
21MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa264.21229.63305.520
22PakistanPAKSouthern Asia262.48235.03291.622
23TogoTGOWestern Africa262.06240.13287.332
24TürkiyeTURWestern Asia261.67237.73290.124
25MoroccoMARNorthern Africa250.04222.19283.628

02In 1959

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Yemen441.97
  2. 2Sierra Leone395.83
  3. 3Oman388.50
  4. 4Gambia367.29
  5. 5Afghanistan356.45

Lowest

  1. 131Sweden19.91
  2. 130Netherlands21.48
  3. 129Iceland21.82
  4. 128Norway23.25
  5. 127Australia25.44

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 139.48. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestYemen372.37

    LowestSweden19.53

    Middle country: 118.58

  • Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestYemen523.115

    LowestSweden20.302

    Middle country: 158.033

031958 → 1959

Since 1958

What changed between 1958 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +5 / −0countries joined / left
  • 126values changed, of 126 in both
  • 4 · 122rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Libya314.97 → 295.45−19.53
  • Bahrain233.67 → 215.16−18.51
  • Montserrat149.16 → 135.84−13.32
  • Iraq214.54 → 201.72−12.82
  • Syria193.34 → 182.57−10.77
+ Central African Republic+ Kuwait+ Marshall Islands+ Oman+ Turks and Caicos 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 1959.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 131 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) (1959). Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1959 [data set], describing 1959. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/under-five-mortality/1959

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07Questions

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1959: questions and answers

Which country has the highest under-five mortality rate in Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1959?

Yemen, at 441.97, of the 131 countries in the file.

What year does Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1959 describe?

1959.

How many countries does Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1959 cover?

131.

Where can I download Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1959?

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, 1959 the newest?

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

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