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Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1975

1975, as UN IGME’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1975 covers 174 countries on 3 measures. Cambodia is highest, at 535.00; Sweden is lowest, at 10.34. The middle country reads 78.50. Against 1974, 170 values changed (12 up, 158 down), 4 countries joined.

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Under-Five Mortality Rate · Data for 1975

HighestCambodia

535.00

LowestSweden

10.34

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, 1975, 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 174 countries · select a heading to sort

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1975: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
derived
1CambodiaKHMSouth-eastern Asia535.00423.83664.155
2MaliMLIWestern Africa348.65319.74379.759
3NigerNERWestern Africa343.55310.35379.866
4Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa307.15277.56338.601
5MalawiMWIEastern Africa304.45281.13330.148
6GuineaGINWestern Africa304.02274.13336.248
7South SudanSSDEastern Africa303.85225.56411.013
8EthiopiaETHEastern Africa284.84255.32318.358
9Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa280.06256.89306.212
10AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia274.22242.23311.502
11YemenYEMWestern Asia273.76252.20297.364
12BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia273.05258.25288.652
13MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa267.02226.62315.592
14LiberiaLBRWestern Africa264.21237.52292.905
15GambiaGMBWestern Africa262.55231.01299.752
16EritreaERIEastern Africa254.59214.63299.483
17SenegalSENWestern Africa252.71237.23268.193
18BurundiBDIEastern Africa249.31222.05280.281
19ChadTCDMiddle Africa247.74221.46276.577
20RwandaRWAEastern Africa245.42227.23265.237
21NigeriaNGAWestern Africa243.33218.60270.479
22NepalNPLSouthern Asia238.98219.82260.255
23BeninBENWestern Africa235.86218.40255.304
24BhutanBTNSouthern Asia230.38186.29284.826
25DR CongoCODMiddle Africa225.98184.39274.195

02In 1975

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Cambodia535.00
  2. 2Mali348.65
  3. 3Niger343.55
  4. 4Sierra Leone307.15
  5. 5Malawi304.45

Lowest

  1. 174Sweden10.34
  2. 173Finland12.27
  3. 172Denmark12.31
  4. 171Iceland12.85
  5. 170Norway12.93

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 78.50. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestCambodia423.83

    LowestSweden10.09

    Middle country: 69.97

  • Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestCambodia664.155

    LowestSweden10.597

    Middle country: 88.311

031974 → 1975

Since 1974

What changed between 1974 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +4 / −0countries joined / left
  • 170values changed, of 170 in both
  • 12 · 158rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Georgia+ Kyrgyzstan+ Cambodia+ Palestine

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 1975.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 174 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) (1975). Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1975 [data set], describing 1975. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/under-five-mortality/1975

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07Questions

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1975: questions and answers

Which country has the highest under-five mortality rate in Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1975?

Cambodia, at 535.00, of the 174 countries in the file.

What year does Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1975 describe?

1975.

How many countries does Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1975 cover?

174.

Where can I download Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1975?

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, 1975 the newest?

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

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