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Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1985

1985, as UN IGME’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1985 covers 200 countries on 3 measures. Niger is highest, at 338.4957; Finland is lowest, at 7.3375. The middle country reads 55.0769. Against 1984, 192 values changed (10 up, 182 down), 8 countries joined.

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Under-Five Mortality Rate · Data for 1985

HighestNiger

338.4957

LowestFinland

7.3375

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, 1985, 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 200 countries · select a heading to sort

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1985: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
derived
1NigerNERWestern Africa338.4957313.9460365.977
2EthiopiaETHEastern Africa306.0117282.5604331.428
3AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia296.0474266.5976333.319
4EritreaERIEastern Africa274.2037246.5348305.299
5Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia271.7502229.4207324.707
6Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa270.3050245.7538295.701
7South SudanSSDEastern Africa268.7198216.0107328.856
8MaliMLIWestern Africa264.0390246.2186283.076
9GuineaGINWestern Africa257.5930237.9933278.869
10MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa251.3553227.4650278.352
11MalawiMWIEastern Africa251.2023235.3683268.725
12Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa245.9402202.4409293.102
13LiberiaLBRWestern Africa243.9235221.7165268.010
14ChadTCDMiddle Africa226.0511207.0777247.482
15AngolaAGOMiddle Africa217.2623184.9835254.387
16Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa212.2233196.6254228.242
17NigeriaNGAWestern Africa206.9055191.5548223.268
18UgandaUGAEastern Africa199.3525185.2796214.354
19GambiaGMBWestern Africa197.3615176.2920222.622
20SomaliaSOMEastern Africa193.8961152.1923250.820
21DR CongoCODMiddle Africa191.7591169.3820217.434
22BeninBENWestern Africa191.3493178.8973205.142
23Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa186.8329160.3236213.672
24Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa181.3653161.3861203.605
25BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia178.6395172.5297185.068

02In 1985

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Niger338.4957
  2. 2Ethiopia306.0117
  3. 3Afghanistan296.0474
  4. 4Eritrea274.2037
  5. 5Timor-Leste271.7502

Lowest

  1. 200Finland7.3375
  2. 199Japan7.4737
  3. 198Sweden7.6042
  4. 197Iceland7.6313
  5. 196Switzerland9.0186

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 55.0769. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestNiger313.9460

    LowestAndorra2.6790

    Middle country: 47.4643

  • Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestNiger365.977

    LowestFinland7.573

    Middle country: 65.265

031984 → 1985

Since 1984

What changed between 1984 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +8 / −0countries joined / left
  • 192values changed, of 192 in both
  • 10 · 182rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

  • Niger334.4927 → 338.4957+4.0030
  • Zambia162.0994 → 165.7626+3.6632
  • Malawi247.7014 → 251.2023+3.5009
  • Colombia46.4414 → 49.2955+2.8541
  • Liberia241.6023 → 243.9235+2.3213

Fell most

  • Algeria89.1218 → 76.0912−13.0306
  • Ethiopia317.2898 → 306.0117−11.2781
  • Egypt129.4640 → 119.6210−9.8430
  • Yemen162.9697 → 154.1051−8.8646
  • Afghanistan303.8204 → 296.0474−7.7729
+ Anguilla+ Andorra+ Guinea-Bissau+ Monaco+ Nauru+ San Marino+ Timor-Leste+ Kosovo

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 1985.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 200 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) (1985). Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1985 [data set], describing 1985. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/under-five-mortality/1985

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07Questions

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1985: questions and answers

Which country has the highest under-five mortality rate in Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1985?

Niger, at 338.4957, of the 200 countries in the file.

What year does Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1985 describe?

1985.

How many countries does Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1985 cover?

200.

Where can I download Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1985?

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, 1985 the newest?

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

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