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Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1988

1988, as UN IGME’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1988 covers 200 countries on 3 measures. South Sudan is highest, at 780.939; Japan is lowest, at 6.607. The middle country reads 49.281. Against 1987, 200 values changed (14 up, 186 down), the same countries are covered.

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Under-Five Mortality Rate · Data for 1988

HighestSouth Sudan

780.939

LowestJapan

6.607

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, 1988, 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, 1988: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
derived
1South SudanSSDEastern Africa780.939634.070934.7642
2NigerNERWestern Africa340.976317.034367.1644
3SudanSDNNorthern Africa297.043274.391321.7654
4Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa262.191240.733284.6515
5LiberiaLBRWestern Africa259.540237.287283.8318
6MalawiMWIEastern Africa253.242237.631269.9374
7MaliMLIWestern Africa244.064227.981260.8701
8GuineaGINWestern Africa243.710225.630263.0102
9Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia243.034215.374274.7742
10MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa241.285220.313264.2161
11Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa232.361203.988263.1652
12ChadTCDMiddle Africa217.399199.858236.4351
13AngolaAGOMiddle Africa213.788187.512242.9534
14EthiopiaETHEastern Africa210.891195.452227.2646
15NigeriaNGAWestern Africa208.242193.640223.3286
16Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa200.497185.899215.3458
17AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia194.299176.052215.6475
18UgandaUGAEastern Africa189.365176.919202.5164
19SomaliaSOMEastern Africa187.044153.488228.5880
20DR CongoCODMiddle Africa184.768165.472206.6156
21Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa179.782156.749202.4409
22Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa179.434160.341200.8121
23BeninBENWestern Africa179.431167.924192.3624
24GambiaGMBWestern Africa178.092160.449198.0037
25ZambiaZMBEastern Africa176.888164.988189.8168

02In 1988

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1South Sudan780.939
  2. 2Niger340.976
  3. 3Sudan297.043
  4. 4Sierra Leone262.191
  5. 5Liberia259.540

Lowest

  1. 200Japan6.607
  2. 199Iceland6.876
  3. 198Finland7.099
  4. 197Sweden7.326
  5. 196Monaco8.482

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 49.281. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestSouth Sudan634.070

    LowestAndorra2.974

    Middle country: 43.161

  • Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestSouth Sudan934.7642

    LowestJapan6.7361

    Middle country: 56.4395

031987 → 1988

Since 1987

What changed between 1987 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 200values changed, of 200 in both
  • 14 · 186rose · 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 1988.

  • 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) (1988). Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1988 [data set], describing 1988. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/under-five-mortality/1988

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07Questions

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1988: questions and answers

Which country has the highest under-five mortality rate in Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1988?

South Sudan, at 780.939, of the 200 countries in the file.

What year does Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1988 describe?

1988.

How many countries does Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1988 cover?

200.

Where can I download Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1988?

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, 1988 the newest?

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

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