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Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1964

1964, as UN IGME’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1964 covers 143 countries on 3 measures. Mali is highest, at 424.801; Sweden is lowest, at 17.106. The middle country reads 119.102. Against 1963, 140 values changed (6 up, 134 down), 3 countries joined.

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Under-Five Mortality Rate · Data for 1964

HighestMali

424.801

LowestSweden

17.106

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, 1964, 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 143 countries · select a heading to sort

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1964: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
derived
1MaliMLIWestern Africa424.801364.256493.09
2YemenYEMWestern Asia403.812357.956454.49
3Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa367.165336.000400.65
4MalawiMWIEastern Africa353.491295.912422.90
5South SudanSSDEastern Africa341.178243.658487.25
6GuineaGINWestern Africa337.272290.903393.28
7GambiaGMBWestern Africa333.090294.721376.57
8AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia329.748289.379376.20
9Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa328.733286.306374.76
10NigeriaNGAWestern Africa325.738276.425387.53
11MaldivesMDVSouthern Asia315.848251.086398.08
12OmanOMNWestern Asia309.659258.171372.39
13NepalNPLSouthern Asia308.213275.024345.85
14LiberiaLBRWestern Africa307.032275.043345.97
15SenegalSENWestern Africa297.277274.906321.62
16Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa288.339255.040325.71
17BeninBENWestern Africa287.808262.790317.20
18EgyptEGYNorthern Africa283.854261.357307.64
19HaitiHTICaribbean275.294245.670309.32
20MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa270.970196.984368.96
21ChadTCDMiddle Africa263.094230.403299.56
22Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa262.509216.237321.58
23BoliviaBOLSouth America261.905235.358290.79
24CameroonCMRMiddle Africa261.384231.767294.89
25TogoTGOWestern Africa248.337226.485274.52

02In 1964

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Mali424.801
  2. 2Yemen403.812
  3. 3Sierra Leone367.165
  4. 4Malawi353.491
  5. 5South Sudan341.178

Lowest

  1. 143Sweden17.106
  2. 142Netherlands18.779
  3. 141Iceland19.730
  4. 140Norway20.407
  5. 139Finland21.301

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 119.102. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestMali364.256

    LowestSweden16.773

    Middle country: 110.047

  • Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestMali493.09

    LowestSweden17.44

    Middle country: 129.06

031963 → 1964

Since 1963

What changed between 1963 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +3 / −0countries joined / left
  • 140values changed, of 140 in both
  • 6 · 134rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • South Sudan388.328 → 341.178−47.150
  • Libya226.483 → 211.565−14.917
  • Oman324.274 → 309.659−14.615
  • Bahrain152.107 → 138.949−13.158
  • Tunisia260.209 → 248.108−12.101
+ Burundi+ Nigeria+ Vietnam

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 1964.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 143 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) (1964). Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1964 [data set], describing 1964. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/under-five-mortality/1964

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07Questions

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1964: questions and answers

Which country has the highest under-five mortality rate in Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1964?

Mali, at 424.801, of the 143 countries in the file.

What year does Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1964 describe?

1964.

How many countries does Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1964 cover?

143.

Where can I download Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1964?

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, 1964 the newest?

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

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