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Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1973

1973, as UN IGME’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1973 covers 168 countries on 3 measures. Mali is highest, at 364.570; Sweden is lowest, at 11.607. The middle country reads 81.456. Against 1972, 167 values changed (13 up, 154 down), 1 country joined.

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Under-Five Mortality Rate · Data for 1973

HighestMali

364.570

LowestSweden

11.607

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, 1973, 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 168 countries · select a heading to sort

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1973: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
derived
1MaliMLIWestern Africa364.570332.881399.092
2NigerNERWestern Africa343.543308.437383.656
3MalawiMWIEastern Africa322.423295.844351.800
4Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa316.464286.451348.711
5GuineaGINWestern Africa311.006278.913347.762
6South SudanSSDEastern Africa311.002225.374430.333
7YemenYEMWestern Asia297.464272.284324.075
8Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa296.863270.266327.023
9EthiopiaETHEastern Africa287.593252.763326.438
10AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia284.747250.536324.526
11GambiaGMBWestern Africa275.928242.926313.561
12LiberiaLBRWestern Africa272.558244.833302.960
13SenegalSENWestern Africa270.141253.397287.354
14MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa270.065225.270324.996
15NigeriaNGAWestern Africa259.760231.982290.670
16ChadTCDMiddle Africa250.743222.864281.163
17NepalNPLSouthern Asia250.276228.975273.859
18BurundiBDIEastern Africa250.187221.730281.122
19BeninBENWestern Africa245.869227.041267.474
20BhutanBTNSouthern Asia243.521194.319305.818
21EgyptEGYNorthern Africa235.680222.008250.551
22DR CongoCODMiddle Africa233.795186.138290.874
23RwandaRWAEastern Africa232.998214.878253.077
24HaitiHTICaribbean229.180210.560249.826
25BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia229.077216.070243.036

02In 1973

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Mali364.570
  2. 2Niger343.543
  3. 3Malawi322.423
  4. 4Sierra Leone316.464
  5. 5Guinea311.006

Lowest

  1. 168Sweden11.607
  2. 167Finland13.854
  3. 166Denmark13.928
  4. 165Iceland14.137
  5. 164Netherlands14.138

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 81.456. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestMali332.881

    LowestSweden11.352

    Middle country: 72.260

  • Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestSouth Sudan430.333

    LowestSweden11.877

    Middle country: 92.123

031972 → 1973

Since 1972

What changed between 1972 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +1 / −0countries joined / left
  • 167values changed, of 167 in both
  • 13 · 154rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Saint Kitts and Nevis

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 1973.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 168 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) (1973). Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1973 [data set], describing 1973. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/under-five-mortality/1973

0673 held

Other years

07Questions

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1973: questions and answers

Which country has the highest under-five mortality rate in Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1973?

Mali, at 364.570, of the 168 countries in the file.

What year does Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1973 describe?

1973.

How many countries does Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1973 cover?

168.

Where can I download Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1973?

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, 1973 the newest?

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

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