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Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1966

1966, as UN IGME’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1966 covers 146 countries on 3 measures. Mali is highest, at 411.042; Sweden is lowest, at 15.546. The middle country reads 103.706. Against 1965, 145 values changed (9 up, 136 down), 1 country joined.

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Under-Five Mortality Rate · Data for 1966

HighestMali

411.042

LowestSweden

15.546

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, 1966, 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 146 countries · select a heading to sort

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1966: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
derived
1MaliMLIWestern Africa411.042361.24466.310
2South SudanSSDEastern Africa410.861289.64591.307
3YemenYEMWestern Asia383.675344.33426.749
4Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa355.062324.64387.960
5MalawiMWIEastern Africa350.635304.16404.301
6GuineaGINWestern Africa332.131287.87384.783
7Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa322.738283.91365.012
8GambiaGMBWestern Africa320.364284.25360.325
9AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia319.533281.89363.148
10NigeriaNGAWestern Africa312.118274.34357.124
11LiberiaLBRWestern Africa302.538270.28341.030
12MaldivesMDVSouthern Asia297.446242.50363.081
13SenegalSENWestern Africa296.913276.24319.359
14NepalNPLSouthern Asia294.326264.67327.747
15OmanOMNWestern Asia282.805238.59333.842
16BeninBENWestern Africa277.719254.32304.579
17Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa274.005244.24306.778
18MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa273.255207.50357.030
19EgyptEGYNorthern Africa268.442248.93288.542
20HaitiHTICaribbean265.852239.30295.624
21ChadTCDMiddle Africa260.489228.13296.184
22EthiopiaETHEastern Africa251.420196.50316.549
23Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa250.594211.19300.434
24BoliviaBOLSouth America249.813227.79273.812
25CameroonCMRMiddle Africa248.455222.25278.170

02In 1966

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Mali411.042
  2. 2South Sudan410.861
  3. 3Yemen383.675
  4. 4Sierra Leone355.062
  5. 5Malawi350.635

Lowest

  1. 146Sweden15.546
  2. 145Netherlands17.868
  3. 144Iceland18.513
  4. 143Norway18.991
  5. 142Finland19.248

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 103.706. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestMali361.24

    LowestSweden15.23

    Middle country: 96.13

  • Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestSouth Sudan591.307

    LowestSweden15.861

    Middle country: 122.461

031965 → 1966

Since 1965

What changed between 1965 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +1 / −0countries joined / left
  • 145values changed, of 145 in both
  • 9 · 136rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Indonesia229.921 → 189.073−40.848
  • Libya197.454 → 183.688−13.766
  • Oman296.206 → 282.805−13.401
  • Chile115.989 → 104.131−11.858
  • Tunisia236.172 → 224.578−11.594
+ Ethiopia

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 1966.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 146 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) (1966). Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1966 [data set], describing 1966. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/under-five-mortality/1966

0673 held

Other years

07Questions

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1966: questions and answers

Which country has the highest under-five mortality rate in Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1966?

Mali, at 411.042, of the 146 countries in the file.

What year does Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1966 describe?

1966.

How many countries does Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1966 cover?

146.

Where can I download Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1966?

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, 1966 the newest?

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

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