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Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1980

1980, as UN IGME’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1980 covers 182 countries on 3 measures. Niger is highest, at 324.950; Sweden is lowest, at 8.444. The middle country reads 70.068. Against 1979, 181 values changed (5 up, 176 down), 1 country joined.

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Under-Five Mortality Rate · Data for 1980

HighestNiger

324.950

LowestSweden

8.444

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, 1980, 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 182 countries · select a heading to sort

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1980: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
derived
1NigerNERWestern Africa324.950297.948353.54
2MaliMLIWestern Africa305.129283.053328.96
3Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa286.070258.562316.12
4South SudanSSDEastern Africa286.009224.955362.95
5GuineaGINWestern Africa281.032257.109306.30
6MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa262.204232.275296.02
7MalawiMWIEastern Africa256.903238.989276.68
8LiberiaLBRWestern Africa246.571221.869273.66
9MadagascarMDGEastern Africa245.200225.027267.05
10AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia245.162218.987277.63
11EthiopiaETHEastern Africa241.910220.917265.17
12ChadTCDMiddle Africa238.881216.860264.42
13Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa236.711219.263256.73
14AngolaAGOMiddle Africa232.811174.734308.90
15GambiaGMBWestern Africa230.338203.152264.65
16BurundiBDIEastern Africa223.531199.627249.99
17UgandaUGAEastern Africa220.465203.106239.89
18RwandaRWAEastern Africa218.964203.076236.21
19NigeriaNGAWestern Africa212.937194.171232.89
20BeninBENWestern Africa211.319196.969226.95
21YemenYEMWestern Asia209.394193.984226.36
22NepalNPLSouthern Asia208.080192.921224.45
23BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia207.191198.182216.37
24DR CongoCODMiddle Africa206.622176.093241.22
25SenegalSENWestern Africa204.198192.573215.81

02In 1980

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Niger324.950
  2. 2Mali305.129
  3. 3Sierra Leone286.070
  4. 4South Sudan286.009
  5. 5Guinea281.032

Lowest

  1. 182Sweden8.444
  2. 181Finland8.662
  3. 180Iceland9.692
  4. 179Japan9.896
  5. 178Denmark9.966

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 70.068. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestNiger297.948

    LowestSweden8.218

    Middle country: 59.539

  • Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestSouth Sudan362.95

    LowestSweden8.68

    Middle country: 79.30

031979 → 1980

Since 1979

What changed between 1979 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +1 / −0countries joined / left
  • 181values changed, of 181 in both
  • 5 · 176rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Cambodia207.281 → 181.464−25.817
  • Rwanda234.595 → 218.964−15.631
  • Algeria168.781 → 155.573−13.209
  • Yemen222.416 → 209.394−13.022
  • Oman123.582 → 112.660−10.923
+ Angola

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 1980.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 182 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) (1980). Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1980 [data set], describing 1980. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/under-five-mortality/1980

0673 held

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07Questions

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1980: questions and answers

Which country has the highest under-five mortality rate in Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1980?

Niger, at 324.950, of the 182 countries in the file.

What year does Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1980 describe?

1980.

How many countries does Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1980 cover?

182.

Where can I download Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1980?

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, 1980 the newest?

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

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