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Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1982

1982, as UN IGME’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1982 covers 188 countries on 3 measures. Niger is highest, at 326.53; Finland is lowest, at 7.86. The middle country reads 65.28. Against 1981, 185 values changed (8 up, 177 down), 3 countries joined.

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Under-Five Mortality Rate · Data for 1982

HighestNiger

326.53

LowestFinland

7.86

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, 1982, 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 188 countries · select a heading to sort

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1982: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
derived
1NigerNERWestern Africa326.53301.08354.266
2MadagascarMDGEastern Africa304.79281.04331.376
3MaliMLIWestern Africa288.01268.04309.593
4South SudanSSDEastern Africa279.21222.77348.692
5Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa279.19252.62307.492
6AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia277.04248.01314.173
7GuineaGINWestern Africa271.50249.17294.933
8MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa260.19232.89291.015
9MalawiMWIEastern Africa246.20229.49264.731
10LiberiaLBRWestern Africa242.13218.47267.803
11EthiopiaETHEastern Africa235.85216.35257.421
12ChadTCDMiddle Africa234.21213.39258.302
13Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa225.76209.30243.828
14AngolaAGOMiddle Africa225.47181.37278.447
15GambiaGMBWestern Africa217.25192.76248.714
16UgandaUGAEastern Africa215.33199.18232.918
17NigeriaNGAWestern Africa207.69190.63225.844
18SomaliaSOMEastern Africa203.81142.97294.833
19BeninBENWestern Africa203.08189.69217.763
20BurundiBDIEastern Africa202.88181.09227.306
21DR CongoCODMiddle Africa199.95172.81230.479
22Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa198.58159.46236.877
23BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia196.24188.58204.115
24NepalNPLSouthern Asia194.69181.07209.594
25SenegalSENWestern Africa191.71181.10202.604

02In 1982

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Niger326.53
  2. 2Madagascar304.79
  3. 3Mali288.01
  4. 4South Sudan279.21
  5. 5Sierra Leone279.19

Lowest

  1. 188Finland7.86
  2. 187Sweden8.00
  3. 186Iceland8.71
  4. 185Japan8.82
  5. 184Denmark9.60

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 65.28. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestNiger301.08

    LowestFinland7.61

    Middle country: 55.73

  • Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestNiger354.266

    LowestFinland8.117

    Middle country: 74.109

031981 → 1982

Since 1981

What changed between 1981 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +3 / −0countries joined / left
  • 185values changed, of 185 in both
  • 8 · 177rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Azerbaijan+ Equatorial Guinea+ Somalia

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 1982.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 188 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) (1982). Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1982 [data set], describing 1982. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/under-five-mortality/1982

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07Questions

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1982: questions and answers

Which country has the highest under-five mortality rate in Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1982?

Niger, at 326.53, of the 188 countries in the file.

What year does Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1982 describe?

1982.

How many countries does Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1982 cover?

188.

Where can I download Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1982?

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, 1982 the newest?

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

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