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Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1986

1986, as UN IGME’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1986 covers 200 countries on 3 measures. Niger is highest, at 341.265; Japan is lowest, at 7.122. The middle country reads 53.416. Against 1985, 200 values changed (10 up, 190 down), the same countries are covered.

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Under-Five Mortality Rate · Data for 1986

HighestNiger

341.265

LowestJapan

7.122

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, 1986, 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, 1986: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
derived
1NigerNERWestern Africa341.265316.9303368.501
2EthiopiaETHEastern Africa299.528276.8210323.643
3Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa267.520244.1228291.941
4South SudanSSDEastern Africa264.974214.2237322.544
5Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia264.030227.4726308.039
6MaliMLIWestern Africa256.912239.6995275.134
7MalawiMWIEastern Africa254.014237.9935271.504
8GuineaGINWestern Africa253.013234.0576273.523
9AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia250.476226.0775281.207
10LiberiaLBRWestern Africa247.904225.7542271.582
11MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa247.815225.0140273.382
12Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa241.217204.3329281.032
13ChadTCDMiddle Africa223.286204.7173243.623
14AngolaAGOMiddle Africa215.605185.8824249.593
15Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa207.903192.4424223.325
16NigeriaNGAWestern Africa207.541192.4426223.458
17UgandaUGAEastern Africa195.684182.2400209.891
18SomaliaSOMEastern Africa191.660153.2940241.932
19GambiaGMBWestern Africa190.743170.7853214.114
20DR CongoCODMiddle Africa189.427168.0512213.700
21BeninBENWestern Africa187.408175.2669201.065
22Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa183.940159.3612209.009
23Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa180.599160.9714202.385
24TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa176.507164.9605188.506
25EritreaERIEastern Africa175.413158.0233194.852

02In 1986

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Niger341.265
  2. 2Ethiopia299.528
  3. 3Sierra Leone267.520
  4. 4South Sudan264.974
  5. 5Timor-Leste264.030

Lowest

  1. 200Japan7.122
  2. 199Finland7.264
  3. 198Iceland7.356
  4. 197Sweden7.514
  5. 196Switzerland8.883

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 53.416. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestNiger316.9303

    LowestAndorra2.7630

    Middle country: 46.0538

  • Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestNiger368.501

    LowestJapan7.258

    Middle country: 61.689

031985 → 1986

Since 1985

What changed between 1985 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 200values changed, of 200 in both
  • 10 · 190rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

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 1986.

  • 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) (1986). Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1986 [data set], describing 1986. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/under-five-mortality/1986

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07Questions

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1986: questions and answers

Which country has the highest under-five mortality rate in Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1986?

Niger, at 341.265, of the 200 countries in the file.

What year does Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1986 describe?

1986.

How many countries does Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1986 cover?

200.

Where can I download Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1986?

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, 1986 the newest?

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

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