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Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1989

1989, as UN IGME’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1989 covers 200 countries on 3 measures. Niger is highest, at 337.660; Japan is lowest, at 6.441. The middle country reads 47.203. Against 1988, 200 values changed (15 up, 185 down), the same countries are covered.

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Under-Five Mortality Rate · Data for 1989

HighestNiger

337.660

LowestJapan

6.441

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, 1989, 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, 1989: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
derived
1NigerNERWestern Africa337.660314.539363.533
2South SudanSSDEastern Africa305.680249.294362.601
3LiberiaLBRWestern Africa265.501242.355289.967
4Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa260.106239.594281.422
5MalawiMWIEastern Africa249.275234.279265.430
6GuineaGINWestern Africa238.709221.044257.334
7MaliMLIWestern Africa238.385222.952254.611
8MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa238.146217.945260.299
9Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia232.071207.343260.394
10Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa228.000202.303255.929
11ChadTCDMiddle Africa214.321197.223232.868
12AngolaAGOMiddle Africa213.165188.244241.487
13NigeriaNGAWestern Africa208.016193.813222.790
14EthiopiaETHEastern Africa206.514191.564222.583
15Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa198.130183.743212.671
16AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia187.782170.558207.669
17UgandaUGAEastern Africa186.134173.953199.039
18SomaliaSOMEastern Africa184.049151.692223.677
19DR CongoCODMiddle Africa182.380163.874203.482
20ZambiaZMBEastern Africa179.363167.369192.365
21Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa179.044160.232200.138
22Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa178.116156.107200.088
23BeninBENWestern Africa175.367164.132187.640
24GambiaGMBWestern Africa172.058155.554190.504
25TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa170.025159.109181.406

02In 1989

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Niger337.660
  2. 2South Sudan305.680
  3. 3Liberia265.501
  4. 4Sierra Leone260.106
  5. 5Malawi249.275

Lowest

  1. 200Japan6.441
  2. 199Iceland6.649
  3. 198Finland6.946
  4. 197Sweden7.193
  5. 196Monaco8.111

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 47.203. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestNiger314.539

    LowestAndorra3.096

    Middle country: 40.973

  • Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestNiger363.533

    LowestJapan6.564

    Middle country: 53.141

031988 → 1989

Since 1988

What changed between 1988 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 200values changed, of 200 in both
  • 15 · 185rose · 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 1989.

  • 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) (1989). Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1989 [data set], describing 1989. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/under-five-mortality/1989

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07Questions

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1989: questions and answers

Which country has the highest under-five mortality rate in Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1989?

Niger, at 337.660, of the 200 countries in the file.

What year does Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1989 describe?

1989.

How many countries does Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1989 cover?

200.

Where can I download Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1989?

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, 1989 the newest?

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

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