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Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1963

1963, as UN IGME’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1963 covers 140 countries on 3 measures. Mali is highest, at 432.406; Sweden is lowest, at 17.920. The middle country reads 119.514. Against 1962, 137 values changed (5 up, 132 down), 3 countries joined.

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Under-Five Mortality Rate · Data for 1963

HighestMali

432.406

LowestSweden

17.920

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, 1963, 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 140 countries · select a heading to sort

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1963: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
derived
1MaliMLIWestern Africa432.406364.58509.16
2YemenYEMWestern Asia412.273362.91467.27
3South SudanSSDEastern Africa388.328279.05550.89
4Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa372.920340.75408.28
5MalawiMWIEastern Africa355.277291.14433.19
6GuineaGINWestern Africa339.723291.83396.73
7GambiaGMBWestern Africa339.576299.62384.81
8AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia334.982292.58383.63
9Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa332.060287.83379.50
10MaldivesMDVSouthern Asia324.961253.25418.66
11OmanOMNWestern Asia324.274267.15393.68
12NepalNPLSouthern Asia314.692279.97354.09
13LiberiaLBRWestern Africa308.634276.62347.62
14SenegalSENWestern Africa296.803273.43322.18
15Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa295.796260.29335.76
16EgyptEGYNorthern Africa293.242268.93319.33
17BeninBENWestern Africa292.884267.44323.89
18HaitiHTICaribbean279.947248.36316.26
19MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa269.600191.33376.58
20Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa268.526218.74333.29
21BoliviaBOLSouth America267.816238.35300.37
22CameroonCMRMiddle Africa266.448235.04301.65
23ChadTCDMiddle Africa264.125231.50300.48
24TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa260.209222.34304.72
25TogoTGOWestern Africa251.395229.63277.55

02In 1963

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Mali432.406
  2. 2Yemen412.273
  3. 3South Sudan388.328
  4. 4Sierra Leone372.920
  5. 5Malawi355.277

Lowest

  1. 140Sweden17.920
  2. 139Netherlands19.246
  3. 138Iceland20.244
  4. 137Norway21.013
  5. 136Finland22.496

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 119.514. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestMali364.58

    LowestSweden17.56

    Middle country: 111.57

  • Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestSouth Sudan550.89

    LowestSweden18.30

    Middle country: 135.17

031962 → 1963

Since 1962

What changed between 1962 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +3 / −0countries joined / left
  • 137values changed, of 137 in both
  • 5 · 132rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Mali+ Mozambique+ Tonga

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 1963.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 140 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) (1963). Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1963 [data set], describing 1963. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/under-five-mortality/1963

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07Questions

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1963: questions and answers

Which country has the highest under-five mortality rate in Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1963?

Mali, at 432.406, of the 140 countries in the file.

What year does Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1963 describe?

1963.

How many countries does Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1963 cover?

140.

Where can I download Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1963?

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, 1963 the newest?

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

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