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Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1979

1979, as UN IGME’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1979 covers 181 countries on 3 measures. Niger is highest, at 327.62; Sweden is lowest, at 8.72. The middle country reads 71.63. Against 1978, 180 values changed (6 up, 174 down), 1 country joined.

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Under-Five Mortality Rate · Data for 1979

HighestNiger

327.62

LowestSweden

8.72

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, 1979, 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 181 countries · select a heading to sort

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1979: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
derived
1NigerNERWestern Africa327.62299.65356.748
2MaliMLIWestern Africa313.71290.47339.126
3Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa289.97262.24320.246
4South SudanSSDEastern Africa289.44225.77371.474
5GuineaGINWestern Africa285.88260.94312.554
6MalawiMWIEastern Africa265.42247.04285.749
7MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa262.72231.27298.873
8AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia251.11223.91284.495
9LiberiaLBRWestern Africa249.72224.39277.340
10EthiopiaETHEastern Africa244.02222.59268.059
11Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa243.57225.32264.717
12ChadTCDMiddle Africa240.94218.17267.234
13GambiaGMBWestern Africa236.69208.60272.200
14RwandaRWAEastern Africa234.60217.74253.798
15BurundiBDIEastern Africa232.31207.49261.013
16YemenYEMWestern Asia222.42205.90240.764
17UgandaUGAEastern Africa218.71201.16238.069
18NigeriaNGAWestern Africa217.14197.44238.072
19BeninBENWestern Africa215.80200.94231.820
20NepalNPLSouthern Asia214.71198.81231.825
21BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia212.39202.52222.361
22SenegalSENWestern Africa212.01199.82223.896
23DR CongoCODMiddle Africa210.16177.80246.871
24CambodiaKHMSouth-eastern Asia207.28183.17235.778
25LaosLAOSouth-eastern Asia206.83178.49238.697

02In 1979

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Niger327.62
  2. 2Mali313.71
  3. 3Sierra Leone289.97
  4. 4South Sudan289.44
  5. 5Guinea285.88

Lowest

  1. 181Sweden8.72
  2. 180Finland9.22
  3. 179Denmark10.26
  4. 178Iceland10.27
  5. 177Norway10.41

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 71.63. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestNiger299.65

    LowestSweden8.51

    Middle country: 61.22

  • Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestSouth Sudan371.474

    LowestSweden8.950

    Middle country: 81.844

031978 → 1979

Since 1978

What changed between 1978 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +1 / −0countries joined / left
  • 180values changed, of 180 in both
  • 6 · 174rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Cambodia518.74 → 207.28−311.46
  • Yemen235.57 → 222.42−13.15
  • Rwanda246.22 → 234.60−11.63
  • Oman134.95 → 123.58−11.37
  • Algeria180.12 → 168.78−11.34
+ Uzbekistan

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 1979.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 181 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) (1979). Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1979 [data set], describing 1979. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/under-five-mortality/1979

0673 held

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07Questions

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1979: questions and answers

Which country has the highest under-five mortality rate in Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1979?

Niger, at 327.62, of the 181 countries in the file.

What year does Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1979 describe?

1979.

How many countries does Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1979 cover?

181.

Where can I download Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1979?

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, 1979 the newest?

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

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