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Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1997

1997, as UN IGME’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1997 covers 200 countries on 3 measures. Niger is highest, at 257.864; Sweden is lowest, at 4.355. The middle country reads 34.933. Against 1996, 199 values changed (15 up, 184 down), the same countries are covered.

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Under-Five Mortality Rate · Data for 1997

HighestNiger

257.864

LowestSweden

4.355

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, 1997, 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, 1997: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
derived
1NigerNERWestern Africa257.864239.754277.527
2South SudanSSDEastern Africa250.901209.189297.260
3Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa237.878221.979255.116
4LiberiaLBRWestern Africa232.670214.668252.557
5RwandaRWAEastern Africa221.444207.619236.623
6DR CongoCODMiddle Africa206.813187.961228.437
7MaliMLIWestern Africa205.609192.789219.039
8AngolaAGOMiddle Africa203.523181.026229.304
9MalawiMWIEastern Africa197.535186.101209.923
10NigeriaNGAWestern Africa194.266182.826206.845
11MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa193.647178.798209.998
12ChadTCDMiddle Africa191.926177.459208.060
13Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa189.980171.565210.558
14Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa186.665173.829200.470
15GuineaGINWestern Africa186.606173.300200.838
16Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia176.353159.983193.990
17SomaliaSOMEastern Africa173.230136.028226.058
18Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa172.100156.132189.914
19ZambiaZMBEastern Africa165.572154.609177.220
20Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa165.323148.340187.887
21BurundiBDIEastern Africa164.121148.200182.294
22EthiopiaETHEastern Africa159.034148.186170.750
23UgandaUGAEastern Africa157.748147.950167.990
24Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa148.906138.417160.724
25CameroonCMRMiddle Africa148.415137.141160.967

02In 1997

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Niger257.864
  2. 2South Sudan250.901
  3. 3Sierra Leone237.878
  4. 4Liberia232.670
  5. 5Rwanda221.444

Lowest

  1. 200Sweden4.355
  2. 199Singapore4.578
  3. 198Iceland4.639
  4. 197Finland4.730
  5. 196Japan5.219

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 34.933. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestNiger239.754

    LowestAndorra3.774

    Middle country: 30.867

  • Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestSouth Sudan297.260

    LowestSweden4.521

    Middle country: 39.328

031996 → 1997

Since 1996

What changed between 1996 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 199values changed, of 200 in both
  • 15 · 184rose · 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 1997.

  • 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) (1997). Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1997 [data set], describing 1997. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/under-five-mortality/1997

0673 held

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07Questions

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1997: questions and answers

Which country has the highest under-five mortality rate in Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1997?

Niger, at 257.864, of the 200 countries in the file.

What year does Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1997 describe?

1997.

How many countries does Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1997 cover?

200.

Where can I download Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1997?

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, 1997 the newest?

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

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