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Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1994

1994, as UN IGME’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1994 covers 200 countries on 3 measures. Rwanda is highest, at 388.95; Sweden is lowest, at 5.23. The middle country reads 38.30. Against 1993, 200 values changed (24 up, 176 down), the same countries are covered.

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Under-Five Mortality Rate · Data for 1994

HighestRwanda

388.95

LowestSweden

5.23

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, 1994, 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, 1994: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
derived
1RwandaRWAEastern Africa388.95363.5895416.646
2NigerNERWestern Africa294.28274.2389316.596
3LiberiaLBRWestern Africa261.92240.4386285.814
4Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa249.05231.9844267.442
5South SudanSSDEastern Africa227.62187.9403266.522
6MaliMLIWestern Africa217.31204.0134231.337
7MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa217.15200.1073236.013
8MalawiMWIEastern Africa214.71202.0661228.431
9AngolaAGOMiddle Africa211.35188.3152237.466
10GuineaGINWestern Africa207.54192.8541223.095
11Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa205.03185.0863226.765
12NigeriaNGAWestern Africa203.06190.7143216.340
13ChadTCDMiddle Africa200.18184.9304216.617
14Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa193.68180.4514207.713
15Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia193.05175.3921212.795
16EthiopiaETHEastern Africa178.90166.4907192.481
17Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa175.88158.6253194.521
18ZambiaZMBEastern Africa175.78164.0921187.795
19SomaliaSOMEastern Africa173.23136.0310226.057
20DR CongoCODMiddle Africa171.44155.4768189.621
21Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa171.34154.3486192.518
22BurundiBDIEastern Africa169.36151.9297189.384
23UgandaUGAEastern Africa165.48155.0302176.455
24TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa158.91149.0444169.227
25AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia158.27145.1931172.200

02In 1994

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Rwanda388.95
  2. 2Niger294.28
  3. 3Liberia261.92
  4. 4Sierra Leone249.05
  5. 5South Sudan227.62

Lowest

  1. 200Sweden5.23
  2. 199Singapore5.37
  3. 198Iceland5.43
  4. 197Finland5.46
  5. 196Japan5.87

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 38.30. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestRwanda363.5895

    LowestAndorra3.5920

    Middle country: 33.8597

  • Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestRwanda416.646

    LowestSweden5.397

    Middle country: 44.445

031993 → 1994

Since 1993

What changed between 1993 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 200values changed, of 200 in both
  • 24 · 176rose · 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 1994.

  • 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) (1994). Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1994 [data set], describing 1994. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/under-five-mortality/1994

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07Questions

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1994: questions and answers

Which country has the highest under-five mortality rate in Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1994?

Rwanda, at 388.95, of the 200 countries in the file.

What year does Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1994 describe?

1994.

How many countries does Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1994 cover?

200.

Where can I download Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1994?

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, 1994 the newest?

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

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