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Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1968

1968, as UN IGME’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1968 covers 154 countries on 3 measures. Nigeria is highest, at 406.76; Sweden is lowest, at 14.38. The middle country reads 98.13. Against 1967, 149 values changed (10 up, 139 down), 5 countries joined.

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Under-Five Mortality Rate · Data for 1968

HighestNigeria

406.76

LowestSweden

14.38

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, 1968, 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 154 countries · select a heading to sort

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1968: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
derived
1NigeriaNGAWestern Africa406.76362.55458.58
2South SudanSSDEastern Africa403.47282.63583.17
3MaliMLIWestern Africa397.69355.06444.02
4YemenYEMWestern Asia359.32324.70396.53
5MalawiMWIEastern Africa347.03311.38389.52
6Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa343.21312.47376.54
7GuineaGINWestern Africa326.59285.59374.85
8NigerNERWestern Africa324.77278.43378.91
9Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa317.47282.57355.29
10AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia310.01273.32351.93
11GambiaGMBWestern Africa307.92272.57347.19
12LiberiaLBRWestern Africa295.04264.11330.13
13SenegalSENWestern Africa294.25274.66314.81
14NepalNPLSouthern Asia280.61253.11311.26
15MaldivesMDVSouthern Asia278.08232.38332.59
16BhutanBTNSouthern Asia275.70205.19369.35
17MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa274.13215.84348.23
18BeninBENWestern Africa268.30246.59293.10
19Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa259.93233.37288.85
20ChadTCDMiddle Africa257.73226.38292.05
21EgyptEGYNorthern Africa257.72240.28275.58
22OmanOMNWestern Asia256.45217.67299.73
23HaitiHTICaribbean255.99232.09282.56
24EthiopiaETHEastern Africa250.30204.59303.19
25BurundiBDIEastern Africa248.01216.87282.18

02In 1968

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Nigeria406.76
  2. 2South Sudan403.47
  3. 3Mali397.69
  4. 4Yemen359.32
  5. 5Malawi347.03

Lowest

  1. 154Sweden14.38
  2. 153Netherlands16.90
  3. 152Iceland17.20
  4. 151Norway17.53
  5. 150Finland17.58

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 98.13. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestNigeria362.55

    LowestSweden14.08

    Middle country: 88.20

  • Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestSouth Sudan583.17

    LowestSweden14.68

    Middle country: 116.34

031967 → 1968

Since 1967

What changed between 1967 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +5 / −0countries joined / left
  • 149values changed, of 149 in both
  • 10 · 139rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Bahamas+ Bhutan+ Germany+ Madagascar+ Myanmar

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 1968.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 154 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) (1968). Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1968 [data set], describing 1968. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/under-five-mortality/1968

0673 held

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07Questions

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1968: questions and answers

Which country has the highest under-five mortality rate in Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1968?

Nigeria, at 406.76, of the 154 countries in the file.

What year does Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1968 describe?

1968.

How many countries does Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1968 cover?

154.

Where can I download Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1968?

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, 1968 the newest?

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

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