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Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1960

1960, as UN IGME’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1960 covers 134 countries on 3 measures. Yemen is highest, at 434.4; Sweden is lowest, at 19.6. The middle country reads 136.1. Against 1959, 131 values changed (3 up, 128 down), 3 countries joined.

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Under-Five Mortality Rate · Data for 1960

HighestYemen

434.4

LowestSweden

19.6

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, 1960, 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 134 countries · select a heading to sort

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1960: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
derived
1YemenYEMWestern Asia434.4371.61507.89
2Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa390.0348.07438.99
3OmanOMNWestern Asia370.8288.55478.52
4GambiaGMBWestern Africa360.1309.36418.09
5South SudanSSDEastern Africa352.6266.15477.01
6AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia350.6297.43415.24
7GuineaGINWestern Africa346.7298.21404.06
8Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa343.1296.81392.88
9NepalNPLSouthern Asia329.5289.50375.79
10EgyptEGYNorthern Africa324.4293.16358.18
11Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa319.3276.20368.45
12LiberiaLBRWestern Africa309.7275.11350.22
13BeninBENWestern Africa307.6280.23341.10
14SenegalSENWestern Africa295.3268.30325.26
15HaitiHTICaribbean293.8255.57338.39
16BoliviaBOLSouth America285.4244.43332.27
17Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa285.1223.23370.82
18CameroonCMRMiddle Africa283.4245.53326.05
19LibyaLBYNorthern Africa276.8232.19330.44
20ChadTCDMiddle Africa267.6234.99304.03
21BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia263.6240.60289.63
22TogoTGOWestern Africa259.7237.68285.05
23MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa257.8225.06296.37
24TürkiyeTURWestern Asia254.7232.24280.63
25PakistanPAKSouthern Asia252.8227.59279.36

02In 1960

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Yemen434.4
  2. 2Sierra Leone390.0
  3. 3Oman370.8
  4. 4Gambia360.1
  5. 5South Sudan352.6

Lowest

  1. 134Sweden19.6
  2. 133Netherlands20.8
  3. 132Iceland21.4
  4. 131Norway22.6
  5. 130Czechia24.8

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 136.1. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestYemen371.61

    LowestSweden19.16

    Middle country: 120.22

  • Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestYemen507.89

    LowestSweden19.97

    Middle country: 151.97

031959 → 1960

Since 1959

What changed between 1959 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +3 / −0countries joined / left
  • 131values changed, of 131 in both
  • 3 · 128rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ United Arab Emirates+ Bolivia+ Dominica

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 1960.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 134 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) (1960). Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1960 [data set], describing 1960. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/under-five-mortality/1960

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07Questions

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1960: questions and answers

Which country has the highest under-five mortality rate in Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1960?

Yemen, at 434.4, of the 134 countries in the file.

What year does Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1960 describe?

1960.

How many countries does Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1960 cover?

134.

Where can I download Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1960?

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, 1960 the newest?

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

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