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Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1974

1974, as UN IGME’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1974 covers 170 countries on 3 measures. Mali is highest, at 356.864; Sweden is lowest, at 10.951. The middle country reads 80.653. Against 1973, 168 values changed (16 up, 152 down), 2 countries joined.

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Under-Five Mortality Rate · Data for 1974

HighestMali

356.864

LowestSweden

10.951

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, 1974, 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 170 countries · select a heading to sort

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1974: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
derived
1MaliMLIWestern Africa356.864326.72389.342
2NigerNERWestern Africa344.608310.35382.565
3MalawiMWIEastern Africa313.715289.06341.043
4Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa311.916281.75343.273
5GuineaGINWestern Africa307.655276.92341.830
6South SudanSSDEastern Africa307.231224.89420.274
7Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa289.192264.11317.613
8EthiopiaETHEastern Africa286.102254.05322.097
9YemenYEMWestern Asia285.691262.57311.018
10AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia279.501246.51318.610
11BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia275.665260.22291.952
12GambiaGMBWestern Africa269.221236.78306.695
13MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa268.647225.84320.583
14LiberiaLBRWestern Africa268.397241.41298.021
15SenegalSENWestern Africa261.944245.71278.377
16NigeriaNGAWestern Africa251.538225.05280.441
17BurundiBDIEastern Africa249.828222.09281.059
18ChadTCDMiddle Africa249.200222.02278.946
19NepalNPLSouthern Asia244.651224.50267.002
20BeninBENWestern Africa240.927222.98261.360
21RwandaRWAEastern Africa239.015221.12258.905
22BhutanBTNSouthern Asia237.194190.22295.781
23DR CongoCODMiddle Africa229.806185.53282.340
24EgyptEGYNorthern Africa228.206215.39242.414
25MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa224.095204.00245.933

02In 1974

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Mali356.864
  2. 2Niger344.608
  3. 3Malawi313.715
  4. 4Sierra Leone311.916
  5. 5Guinea307.655

Lowest

  1. 170Sweden10.951
  2. 169Denmark13.071
  3. 168Finland13.075
  4. 167Iceland13.505
  5. 166Netherlands13.602

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 80.653. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestMali326.72

    LowestSweden10.71

    Middle country: 71.90

  • Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestSouth Sudan420.274

    LowestSweden11.199

    Middle country: 89.028

031973 → 1974

Since 1973

What changed between 1973 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +2 / −0countries joined / left
  • 168values changed, of 168 in both
  • 16 · 152rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Eritrea+ South Africa

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 1974.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 170 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) (1974). Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1974 [data set], describing 1974. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/under-five-mortality/1974

0673 held

Other years

07Questions

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1974: questions and answers

Which country has the highest under-five mortality rate in Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1974?

Mali, at 356.864, of the 170 countries in the file.

What year does Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1974 describe?

1974.

How many countries does Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1974 cover?

170.

Where can I download Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1974?

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, 1974 the newest?

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

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