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Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1971

1971, as UN IGME’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1971 covers 165 countries on 3 measures. Mali is highest, at 378.54; Sweden is lowest, at 12.85. The middle country reads 85.62. Against 1970, 160 values changed (10 up, 150 down), 5 countries joined.

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Under-Five Mortality Rate · Data for 1971

HighestMali

378.54

LowestSweden

12.85

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, 1971, 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 165 countries · select a heading to sort

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1971: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
derived
1MaliMLIWestern Africa378.54343.306416.74
2BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia366.99345.156390.25
3AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia344.29302.926391.98
4NigerNERWestern Africa337.08299.238379.98
5MalawiMWIEastern Africa336.59308.222368.73
6Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa326.64296.198359.93
7YemenYEMWestern Asia320.95292.899351.35
8South SudanSSDEastern Africa317.70226.005448.88
9GuineaGINWestern Africa317.66282.192358.91
10Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa307.84278.335340.86
11GambiaGMBWestern Africa289.03255.025328.07
12SenegalSENWestern Africa283.49265.809301.66
13LiberiaLBRWestern Africa281.30252.243313.54
14NigeriaNGAWestern Africa276.32246.161310.64
15MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa272.71223.234333.81
16NepalNPLSouthern Asia261.82237.860288.08
17BhutanBTNSouthern Asia256.54201.227327.58
18BeninBENWestern Africa255.29235.314277.93
19ChadTCDMiddle Africa253.46224.202285.34
20BurundiBDIEastern Africa249.99220.916282.01
21EthiopiaETHEastern Africa249.26213.264288.95
22MaldivesMDVSouthern Asia248.13211.625290.36
23EgyptEGYNorthern Africa246.08231.047262.15
24DR CongoCODMiddle Africa241.37185.900309.27
25HaitiHTICaribbean240.30219.846262.88

02In 1971

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Mali378.54
  2. 2Bangladesh366.99
  3. 3Afghanistan344.29
  4. 4Niger337.08
  5. 5Malawi336.59

Lowest

  1. 165Sweden12.85
  2. 164Netherlands15.26
  3. 163Iceland15.36
  4. 162Finland15.37
  5. 161Norway15.60

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 85.62. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestBangladesh345.156

    LowestSweden12.586

    Middle country: 75.763

  • Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestSouth Sudan448.88

    LowestSweden13.12

    Middle country: 101.04

031970 → 1971

Since 1970

What changed between 1970 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +5 / −0countries joined / left
  • 160values changed, of 160 in both
  • 10 · 150rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Nigeria387.43 → 276.32−111.12
  • South Sudan405.25 → 317.70−87.55
  • Peru200.13 → 162.45−37.68
  • Oman230.97 → 218.31−12.66
  • Yemen333.46 → 320.95−12.51
+ Cyprus+ Iran+ Kazakhstan+ Moldova+ Ukraine

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 1971.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 165 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) (1971). Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1971 [data set], describing 1971. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/under-five-mortality/1971

0673 held

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07Questions

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1971: questions and answers

Which country has the highest under-five mortality rate in Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1971?

Mali, at 378.54, of the 165 countries in the file.

What year does Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1971 describe?

1971.

How many countries does Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1971 cover?

165.

Where can I download Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1971?

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, 1971 the newest?

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

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