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Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1961

1961, as UN IGME’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1961 covers 135 countries on 3 measures. Yemen is highest, at 427.294; Sweden is lowest, at 19.143. The middle country reads 128.498. Against 1960, 134 values changed (4 up, 130 down), 1 country joined.

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Under-Five Mortality Rate · Data for 1961

HighestYemen

427.294

LowestSweden

19.143

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, 1961, 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 135 countries · select a heading to sort

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1961: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
derived
1YemenYEMWestern Asia427.294369.55493.99
2Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa384.379346.69426.93
3MalawiMWIEastern Africa358.468278.99460.61
4OmanOMNWestern Asia354.375282.19445.45
5GambiaGMBWestern Africa353.131307.28405.24
6South SudanSSDEastern Africa349.950259.05482.86
7AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia345.193296.44403.30
8GuineaGINWestern Africa344.393296.01402.18
9Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa339.055293.17388.99
10NepalNPLSouthern Asia325.394287.49369.24
11EgyptEGYNorthern Africa313.987285.30345.09
12Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa311.206270.68356.95
13LiberiaLBRWestern Africa310.123276.92349.14
14BeninBENWestern Africa302.841276.07335.91
15SenegalSENWestern Africa295.363269.71323.50
16HaitiHTICaribbean289.076253.29330.22
17BoliviaBOLSouth America279.541243.27321.18
18Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa279.536222.16357.72
19CameroonCMRMiddle Africa276.861241.36317.03
20ChadTCDMiddle Africa266.604233.87302.79
21LibyaLBYNorthern Africa259.020221.12303.63
22TogoTGOWestern Africa257.028235.28282.81
23BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia256.715235.47280.66
24MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa251.271220.18287.47
25TürkiyeTURWestern Asia246.917226.01270.95

02In 1961

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Yemen427.294
  2. 2Sierra Leone384.379
  3. 3Malawi358.468
  4. 4Oman354.375
  5. 5Gambia353.131

Lowest

  1. 135Sweden19.143
  2. 134Netherlands20.263
  3. 133Iceland21.069
  4. 132Norway22.055
  5. 131Australia24.279

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 128.498. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestYemen369.55

    LowestSweden18.76

    Middle country: 116.83

  • Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestYemen493.99

    LowestSweden19.54

    Middle country: 144.09

031960 → 1961

Since 1960

What changed between 1960 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +1 / −0countries joined / left
  • 134values changed, of 134 in both
  • 4 · 130rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Libya276.764 → 259.020−17.744
  • Oman370.791 → 354.375−16.416
  • Bahrain197.650 → 181.319−16.331
  • Dominica136.398 → 124.329−12.069
  • Montserrat123.716 → 112.740−10.976
+ Malawi

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 1961.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 135 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) (1961). Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1961 [data set], describing 1961. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/under-five-mortality/1961

0673 held

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07Questions

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1961: questions and answers

Which country has the highest under-five mortality rate in Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1961?

Yemen, at 427.294, of the 135 countries in the file.

What year does Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1961 describe?

1961.

How many countries does Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1961 cover?

135.

Where can I download Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1961?

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, 1961 the newest?

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

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