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Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1983

1983, as UN IGME’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1983 covers 189 countries on 3 measures. Niger is highest, at 330.19; Finland is lowest, at 7.61. The middle country reads 60.01. Against 1982, 188 values changed (9 up, 179 down), 1 country joined.

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Under-Five Mortality Rate · Data for 1983

HighestNiger

330.19

LowestFinland

7.61

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, 1983, 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 189 countries · select a heading to sort

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1983: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
derived
1NigerNERWestern Africa330.19304.974357.70
2EthiopiaETHEastern Africa323.33297.370351.82
3EritreaERIEastern Africa283.97253.774318.01
4MaliMLIWestern Africa279.68260.578300.64
5Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa276.05250.078303.19
6South SudanSSDEastern Africa275.95220.434341.88
7AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia271.19243.232307.19
8GuineaGINWestern Africa266.89245.682289.72
9MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa257.92231.471287.58
10MalawiMWIEastern Africa245.46229.168263.47
11LiberiaLBRWestern Africa241.07217.858266.39
12MadagascarMDGEastern Africa239.46221.057260.10
13ChadTCDMiddle Africa231.61211.423254.77
14AngolaAGOMiddle Africa222.10183.234268.18
15Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa221.18205.068238.33
16GambiaGMBWestern Africa210.70187.304240.15
17UgandaUGAEastern Africa210.21194.881226.56
18NigeriaNGAWestern Africa206.71190.196224.13
19SomaliaSOMEastern Africa200.07147.243276.18
20BeninBENWestern Africa199.12186.183213.41
21DR CongoCODMiddle Africa196.94171.656225.67
22Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa194.47160.794225.96
23BurundiBDIEastern Africa192.73171.274216.33
24BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia190.62183.588197.91
25NepalNPLSouthern Asia187.95174.942202.29

02In 1983

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Niger330.19
  2. 2Ethiopia323.33
  3. 3Eritrea283.97
  4. 4Mali279.68
  5. 5Sierra Leone276.05

Lowest

  1. 189Finland7.61
  2. 188Sweden7.84
  3. 187Iceland8.30
  4. 186Japan8.34
  5. 185Switzerland9.41

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 60.01. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestNiger304.974

    LowestFinland7.366

    Middle country: 51.555

  • Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestNiger357.70

    LowestFinland7.86

    Middle country: 71.35

031982 → 1983

Since 1982

What changed between 1982 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +1 / −0countries joined / left
  • 188values changed, of 188 in both
  • 9 · 179rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Suriname

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 1983.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 189 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) (1983). Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1983 [data set], describing 1983. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/under-five-mortality/1983

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07Questions

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1983: questions and answers

Which country has the highest under-five mortality rate in Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1983?

Niger, at 330.19, of the 189 countries in the file.

What year does Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1983 describe?

1983.

How many countries does Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1983 cover?

189.

Where can I download Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1983?

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, 1983 the newest?

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

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