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Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1996

1996, as UN IGME’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1996 covers 200 countries on 3 measures. Niger is highest, at 269.445; Sweden is lowest, at 4.554. The middle country reads 36.499. Against 1995, 199 values changed (21 up, 178 down), the same countries are covered.

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Under-Five Mortality Rate · Data for 1996

HighestNiger

269.445

LowestSweden

4.554

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, 1996, 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, 1996: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
derived
1NigerNERWestern Africa269.445250.411289.7898
2South SudanSSDEastern Africa259.714215.927306.5858
3LiberiaLBRWestern Africa243.846224.318265.1101
4Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa242.155225.724259.6984
5RwandaRWAEastern Africa222.343208.377237.5909
6DR CongoCODMiddle Africa210.447191.343232.3334
7MaliMLIWestern Africa209.860196.935223.4689
8AngolaAGOMiddle Africa207.347184.828233.2765
9MalawiMWIEastern Africa202.558190.526215.4404
10MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa202.463187.015219.8725
11NigeriaNGAWestern Africa198.125186.285211.0274
12Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa195.030176.402215.7961
13ChadTCDMiddle Africa194.726180.151210.8740
14GuineaGINWestern Africa193.542179.709208.1459
15Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa189.615176.641203.5424
16BurundiBDIEastern Africa189.565170.711211.3564
17Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia184.774167.911203.2448
18Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa173.699157.158191.7060
19SomaliaSOMEastern Africa173.230136.028226.0579
20ZambiaZMBEastern Africa168.683157.320180.4395
21Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa167.790150.997189.8031
22EthiopiaETHEastern Africa165.566154.203177.9681
23UgandaUGAEastern Africa160.303150.355170.6969
24TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa152.295142.821162.3654
25Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa150.927140.297162.8832

02In 1996

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Niger269.445
  2. 2South Sudan259.714
  3. 3Liberia243.846
  4. 4Sierra Leone242.155
  5. 5Rwanda222.343

Lowest

  1. 200Sweden4.554
  2. 199Singapore4.804
  3. 198Iceland4.901
  4. 197Finland4.932
  5. 196Norway5.434

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 36.499. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestNiger250.411

    LowestAndorra3.726

    Middle country: 32.133

  • Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestSouth Sudan306.5858

    LowestSweden4.7323

    Middle country: 41.2407

031995 → 1996

Since 1995

What changed between 1995 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 199values changed, of 200 in both
  • 21 · 178rose · fell
  • 1unchanged

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 1996.

  • 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) (1996). Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1996 [data set], describing 1996. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/under-five-mortality/1996

0673 held

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07Questions

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1996: questions and answers

Which country has the highest under-five mortality rate in Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1996?

Niger, at 269.445, of the 200 countries in the file.

What year does Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1996 describe?

1996.

How many countries does Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1996 cover?

200.

Where can I download Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1996?

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, 1996 the newest?

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

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