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Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1990

1990, as UN IGME’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1990 covers 200 countries on 3 measures. Niger is highest, at 332.414; Japan is lowest, at 6.322. The middle country reads 44.830. Against 1989, 200 values changed (20 up, 180 down), the same countries are covered.

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Under-Five Mortality Rate · Data for 1990

HighestNiger

332.414

LowestJapan

6.322

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, 1990, 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, 1990: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
derived
1NigerNERWestern Africa332.414309.9519357.768
2South SudanSSDEastern Africa301.296246.7387355.140
3LiberiaLBRWestern Africa270.043246.1942295.008
4Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa258.018238.5066278.525
5MalawiMWIEastern Africa243.484229.0058259.188
6MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa235.055215.4161256.521
7GuineaGINWestern Africa233.394216.1582251.272
8MaliMLIWestern Africa233.307218.2483249.160
9Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia228.000204.7478254.442
10Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa223.697199.3657249.255
11AngolaAGOMiddle Africa212.746188.4964240.582
12ChadTCDMiddle Africa211.406194.6842229.252
13NigeriaNGAWestern Africa207.568193.5176221.945
14EthiopiaETHEastern Africa201.970187.4460217.451
15Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa196.554182.4830211.008
16UgandaUGAEastern Africa182.185170.3230194.804
17AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia181.385164.8986199.568
18ZambiaZMBEastern Africa180.650168.7202193.640
19SomaliaSOMEastern Africa180.439148.3990221.824
20DR CongoCODMiddle Africa179.953162.1257200.338
21Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa178.610160.0717199.214
22Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa176.717155.7019198.170
23BeninBENWestern Africa171.219160.2534183.201
24BurundiBDIEastern Africa168.639150.7482188.620
25TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa167.873156.9395179.078

02In 1990

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Niger332.414
  2. 2South Sudan301.296
  3. 3Liberia270.043
  4. 4Sierra Leone258.018
  5. 5Malawi243.484

Lowest

  1. 200Japan6.322
  2. 199Iceland6.422
  3. 198Finland6.728
  4. 197Sweden6.969
  5. 196Singapore7.671

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 44.830. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestNiger309.9519

    LowestAndorra3.2051

    Middle country: 39.5668

  • Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestNiger357.768

    LowestJapan6.443

    Middle country: 52.054

031989 → 1990

Since 1989

What changed between 1989 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 200values changed, of 200 in both
  • 20 · 180rose · 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 1990.

  • 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) (1990). Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1990 [data set], describing 1990. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/under-five-mortality/1990

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07Questions

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1990: questions and answers

Which country has the highest under-five mortality rate in Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1990?

Niger, at 332.414, of the 200 countries in the file.

What year does Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1990 describe?

1990.

How many countries does Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1990 cover?

200.

Where can I download Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1990?

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, 1990 the newest?

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

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