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Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1992

1992, as UN IGME’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1992 covers 200 countries on 3 measures. Somalia is highest, at 376.572; Iceland is lowest, at 5.945. The middle country reads 42.093. Against 1991, 200 values changed (29 up, 171 down), the same countries are covered.

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Under-Five Mortality Rate · Data for 1992

HighestSomalia

376.572

LowestIceland

5.945

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, 1992, 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, 1992: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
derived
1SomaliaSOMEastern Africa376.572299.7508484.801
2South SudanSSDEastern Africa337.126277.0174394.160
3NigerNERWestern Africa316.671295.2667341.114
4LiberiaLBRWestern Africa271.657248.1257296.922
5Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa253.841235.7155273.178
6MalawiMWIEastern Africa228.751215.3795243.020
7MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa227.922209.3373248.288
8MaliMLIWestern Africa224.607210.4525239.486
9GuineaGINWestern Africa221.085205.1511237.811
10Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa214.479192.9939237.784
11Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia212.781192.4351235.496
12AngolaAGOMiddle Africa212.381189.0814238.872
13NigeriaNGAWestern Africa205.686192.5722219.541
14ChadTCDMiddle Africa205.535189.6323222.643
15Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa195.259181.7081209.418
16EthiopiaETHEastern Africa191.507177.6539206.040
17ZambiaZMBEastern Africa180.237168.3136192.793
18Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa177.445159.5746197.042
19RwandaRWAEastern Africa175.637164.4844187.808
20DR CongoCODMiddle Africa175.387158.4755194.540
21Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa173.904155.2974194.904
22UgandaUGAEastern Africa173.122161.9610184.783
23BurundiBDIEastern Africa169.717152.0761189.693
24AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia169.132154.3343184.861
25TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa163.554152.9990174.311

02In 1992

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Somalia376.572
  2. 2South Sudan337.126
  3. 3Niger316.671
  4. 4Liberia271.657
  5. 5Sierra Leone253.841

Lowest

  1. 200Iceland5.945
  2. 199Finland6.114
  3. 198Japan6.137
  4. 197Sweden6.164
  5. 196Singapore6.307

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 42.093. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestSomalia299.7508

    LowestAndorra3.4335

    Middle country: 37.6325

  • Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestSomalia484.801

    LowestJapan6.254

    Middle country: 48.175

031991 → 1992

Since 1991

What changed between 1991 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 200values changed, of 200 in both
  • 29 · 171rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Iraq65.731 → 51.907−13.824
  • Timor-Leste224.337 → 212.781−11.556
  • Niger325.434 → 316.671−8.763
  • Malawi236.498 → 228.751−7.747
  • Eritrea146.298 → 138.598−7.700

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 1992.

  • 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) (1992). Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1992 [data set], describing 1992. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/under-five-mortality/1992

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07Questions

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1992: questions and answers

Which country has the highest under-five mortality rate in Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1992?

Somalia, at 376.572, of the 200 countries in the file.

What year does Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1992 describe?

1992.

How many countries does Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1992 cover?

200.

Where can I download Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1992?

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, 1992 the newest?

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

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