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Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1978

1978, as UN IGME’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1978 covers 180 countries on 3 measures. Cambodia is highest, at 518.74; Sweden is lowest, at 9.04. The middle country reads 72.63. Against 1977, 177 values changed (7 up, 170 down), 3 countries joined.

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Under-Five Mortality Rate · Data for 1978

HighestCambodia

518.74

LowestSweden

9.04

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, 1978, 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 180 countries · select a heading to sort

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1978: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
derived
1CambodiaKHMSouth-eastern Asia518.74455.0042594.08
2NigerNERWestern Africa331.77302.2481362.17
3MaliMLIWestern Africa322.48297.9280349.02
4Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa294.03265.5531324.27
5South SudanSSDEastern Africa293.15225.7196381.69
6GuineaGINWestern Africa290.73264.7925318.88
7MalawiMWIEastern Africa275.33255.8853296.71
8MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa263.59229.9183302.29
9AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia256.94228.8700291.33
10LiberiaLBRWestern Africa253.08227.2766280.80
11Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa251.50232.0068273.45
12RwandaRWAEastern Africa246.22228.1729266.96
13EthiopiaETHEastern Africa245.68223.2211270.35
14GambiaGMBWestern Africa242.95213.9440279.14
15ChadTCDMiddle Africa242.73219.3245269.94
16BurundiBDIEastern Africa239.63213.8528269.46
17YemenYEMWestern Asia235.57217.9175255.06
18NigeriaNGAWestern Africa222.65201.6641244.86
19NepalNPLSouthern Asia221.20204.3659239.30
20SenegalSENWestern Africa221.07208.2946233.71
21BeninBENWestern Africa220.55204.9961237.34
22BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia217.23206.5066228.12
23UgandaUGAEastern Africa216.47198.9727235.86
24DR CongoCODMiddle Africa213.94179.8137252.88
25LaosLAOSouth-eastern Asia212.77180.7553248.85

02In 1978

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Cambodia518.74
  2. 2Niger331.77
  3. 3Mali322.48
  4. 4Sierra Leone294.03
  5. 5South Sudan293.15

Lowest

  1. 180Sweden9.04
  2. 179Finland9.88
  3. 178Denmark10.62
  4. 177Iceland10.88
  5. 176Norway10.90

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 72.63. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestCambodia455.0042

    LowestSweden8.8116

    Middle country: 62.3328

  • Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestCambodia594.08

    LowestSweden9.28

    Middle country: 84.82

031977 → 1978

Since 1977

What changed between 1977 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +3 / −0countries joined / left
  • 177values changed, of 177 in both
  • 7 · 170rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Cambodia543.02 → 518.74−24.28
  • Yemen248.58 → 235.57−13.01
  • Oman146.59 → 134.95−11.64
  • Senegal231.30 → 221.07−10.23
  • Egypt199.71 → 189.53−10.18
+ Albania+ Laos+ Mongolia

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 1978.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 180 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) (1978). Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1978 [data set], describing 1978. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/under-five-mortality/1978

0673 held

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07Questions

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1978: questions and answers

Which country has the highest under-five mortality rate in Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1978?

Cambodia, at 518.74, of the 180 countries in the file.

What year does Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1978 describe?

1978.

How many countries does Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1978 cover?

180.

Where can I download Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1978?

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, 1978 the newest?

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

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