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Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1984

1984, as UN IGME’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1984 covers 192 countries on 3 measures. Niger is highest, at 334.4927; Finland is lowest, at 7.4450. The middle country reads 57.5978. Against 1983, 189 values changed (8 up, 181 down), 3 countries joined.

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Under-Five Mortality Rate · Data for 1984

HighestNiger

334.4927

LowestFinland

7.4450

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, 1984, 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 192 countries · select a heading to sort

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1984: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
derived
1NigerNERWestern Africa334.4927309.46361.823
2EthiopiaETHEastern Africa317.2898292.54344.514
3AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia303.8204272.77343.377
4EritreaERIEastern Africa279.3730250.42312.081
5Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa273.1237247.97299.397
6South SudanSSDEastern Africa272.4713218.10335.383
7MaliMLIWestern Africa271.6430253.46291.782
8GuineaGINWestern Africa262.2614241.60284.174
9MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa254.7180229.70283.431
10MalawiMWIEastern Africa247.7014231.94265.303
11LiberiaLBRWestern Africa241.6023218.71266.305
12ChadTCDMiddle Africa228.8965209.28251.191
13AngolaAGOMiddle Africa219.2616183.98260.739
14Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa216.6529200.87233.180
15NigeriaNGAWestern Africa206.5639190.59223.291
16UgandaUGAEastern Africa204.3901190.01219.829
17GambiaGMBWestern Africa204.0895181.87231.453
18SomaliaSOMEastern Africa196.6307150.54262.141
19BeninBENWestern Africa195.2660182.52209.221
20DR CongoCODMiddle Africa194.3404170.43221.287
21Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa190.4173160.85218.768
22BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia184.7323178.12191.634
23BurundiBDIEastern Africa183.8639162.50207.303
24Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa182.3560161.91205.005
25NepalNPLSouthern Asia181.2738168.86194.772

02In 1984

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Niger334.4927
  2. 2Ethiopia317.2898
  3. 3Afghanistan303.8204
  4. 4Eritrea279.3730
  5. 5Sierra Leone273.1237

Lowest

  1. 192Finland7.4450
  2. 191Sweden7.7090
  3. 190Japan7.8803
  4. 189Iceland7.9450
  5. 188Switzerland9.1897

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 57.5978. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestNiger309.46

    LowestFinland7.21

    Middle country: 49.03

  • Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestNiger361.823

    LowestFinland7.684

    Middle country: 68.824

031983 → 1984

Since 1983

What changed between 1983 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +3 / −0countries joined / left
  • 189values changed, of 189 in both
  • 8 · 181rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Madagascar239.4634 → 177.5455−61.9178
  • Eswatini107.0314 → 90.6234−16.4080
  • Algeria105.2194 → 89.1218−16.0975
  • Egypt139.7632 → 129.4640−10.2992
  • Yemen173.1890 → 162.9697−10.2193
+ Bosnia and Herzegovina+ Montenegro+ Serbia

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 1984.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 192 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) (1984). Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1984 [data set], describing 1984. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/under-five-mortality/1984

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07Questions

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1984: questions and answers

Which country has the highest under-five mortality rate in Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1984?

Niger, at 334.4927, of the 192 countries in the file.

What year does Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1984 describe?

1984.

How many countries does Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1984 cover?

192.

Where can I download Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1984?

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, 1984 the newest?

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

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