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Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1969

1969, as UN IGME’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1969 covers 159 countries on 3 measures. South Sudan is highest, at 409.39; Sweden is lowest, at 13.88. The middle country reads 94.45. Against 1968, 154 values changed (8 up, 146 down), 5 countries joined.

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Under-Five Mortality Rate · Data for 1969

HighestSouth Sudan

409.39

LowestSweden

13.88

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, 1969, 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 159 countries · select a heading to sort

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1969: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
derived
1South SudanSSDEastern Africa409.39287.54586.740
2NigeriaNGAWestern Africa397.17354.13447.539
3MaliMLIWestern Africa391.36351.32434.789
4YemenYEMWestern Asia346.48314.34381.104
5MalawiMWIEastern Africa345.11312.71382.551
6Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa337.50306.61371.023
7NigerNERWestern Africa328.77286.67377.846
8GuineaGINWestern Africa323.83284.61369.773
9Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa314.47282.06350.520
10AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia304.92268.75346.816
11GambiaGMBWestern Africa301.87266.72340.665
12SenegalSENWestern Africa291.87272.96311.700
13LiberiaLBRWestern Africa290.63260.13324.305
14NepalNPLSouthern Asia274.06247.70303.243
15MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa273.60219.21343.856
16BhutanBTNSouthern Asia269.09204.82353.390
17MaldivesMDVSouthern Asia268.38226.10318.563
18BeninBENWestern Africa264.05242.84287.848
19ChadTCDMiddle Africa256.37225.72289.993
20EgyptEGYNorthern Africa253.66237.23270.957
21Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa252.78227.90280.142
22HaitiHTICaribbean250.77227.86276.131
23EthiopiaETHEastern Africa250.07207.99297.747
24BurundiBDIEastern Africa249.09218.78282.121
25DR CongoCODMiddle Africa247.84183.78330.864

02In 1969

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1South Sudan409.39
  2. 2Nigeria397.17
  3. 3Mali391.36
  4. 4Yemen346.48
  5. 5Malawi345.11

Lowest

  1. 159Sweden13.88
  2. 158Netherlands16.38
  3. 157Iceland16.57
  4. 156Finland16.83
  5. 155Norway16.87

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 94.45. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestNigeria354.13

    LowestSweden13.61

    Middle country: 80.53

  • Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestSouth Sudan586.740

    LowestSweden14.166

    Middle country: 111.328

031968 → 1969

Since 1968

What changed between 1968 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +5 / −0countries joined / left
  • 154values changed, of 154 in both
  • 8 · 146rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Argentina+ China+ DR Congo+ Qatar+ Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

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 1969.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 159 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) (1969). Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1969 [data set], describing 1969. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/under-five-mortality/1969

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07Questions

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1969: questions and answers

Which country has the highest under-five mortality rate in Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1969?

South Sudan, at 409.39, of the 159 countries in the file.

What year does Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1969 describe?

1969.

How many countries does Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1969 cover?

159.

Where can I download Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1969?

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, 1969 the newest?

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

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