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Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1976

1976, as UN IGME’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1976 covers 176 countries on 3 measures. Cambodia is highest, at 551.269; Sweden is lowest, at 9.831. The middle country reads 76.692. Against 1975, 174 values changed (12 up, 162 down), 2 countries joined.

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Under-Five Mortality Rate · Data for 1976

HighestCambodia

551.269

LowestSweden

9.831

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, 1976, 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 176 countries · select a heading to sort

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1976: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
derived
1CambodiaKHMSouth-eastern Asia551.269466.673649.107
2NigerNERWestern Africa340.776308.965375.309
3MaliMLIWestern Africa339.999312.706369.483
4Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa302.666273.601333.611
5South SudanSSDEastern Africa300.594225.387401.123
6GuineaGINWestern Africa299.881271.228330.518
7MalawiMWIEastern Africa294.984273.222318.968
8Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa270.135248.534294.607
9AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia268.646237.810304.924
10MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa265.704227.603310.893
11YemenYEMWestern Asia261.383241.458283.725
12LiberiaLBRWestern Africa260.245233.965288.507
13GambiaGMBWestern Africa255.845225.166293.070
14RwandaRWAEastern Africa250.180232.264270.181
15BurundiBDIEastern Africa247.896221.123279.029
16EthiopiaETHEastern Africa247.006222.976274.341
17ChadTCDMiddle Africa245.993220.966274.384
18SenegalSENWestern Africa242.186227.737256.748
19NigeriaNGAWestern Africa235.812212.672261.025
20NepalNPLSouthern Asia233.256214.882253.418
21BeninBENWestern Africa230.588213.850249.222
22BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia224.906213.040237.398
23BhutanBTNSouthern Asia223.763181.521275.245
24DR CongoCODMiddle Africa221.994183.229266.540
25HaitiHTICaribbean211.839195.634230.364

02In 1976

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Cambodia551.269
  2. 2Niger340.776
  3. 3Mali339.999
  4. 4Sierra Leone302.666
  5. 5South Sudan300.594

Lowest

  1. 176Sweden9.831
  2. 175Finland11.443
  3. 174Denmark11.645
  4. 173Iceland12.182
  5. 172Norway12.210

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 76.692. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestCambodia466.673

    LowestSweden9.588

    Middle country: 68.846

  • Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestCambodia649.107

    LowestSweden10.073

    Middle country: 88.129

031975 → 1976

Since 1975

What changed between 1975 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +2 / −0countries joined / left
  • 174values changed, of 174 in both
  • 12 · 162rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Armenia+ Djibouti

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 1976.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 176 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) (1976). Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1976 [data set], describing 1976. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/under-five-mortality/1976

0673 held

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07Questions

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1976: questions and answers

Which country has the highest under-five mortality rate in Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1976?

Cambodia, at 551.269, of the 176 countries in the file.

What year does Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1976 describe?

1976.

How many countries does Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1976 cover?

176.

Where can I download Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1976?

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, 1976 the newest?

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

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