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Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2000

2000, as UN IGME’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2000 covers 200 countries on 3 measures. Niger is highest, at 227.855; Singapore is lowest, at 3.850. The middle country reads 30.432. Against 1999, 199 values changed (10 up, 189 down), the same countries are covered.

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Under-Five Mortality Rate · Data for 2000

HighestNiger

227.855

LowestSingapore

3.850

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, 2000, 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, 2000: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
derived
1NigerNERWestern Africa227.855210.509246.895
2Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa222.837208.017238.561
3LiberiaLBRWestern Africa194.858180.418210.899
4MaliMLIWestern Africa189.931178.136202.390
5AngolaAGOMiddle Africa184.988162.847209.996
6DR CongoCODMiddle Africa184.571167.569203.496
7RwandaRWAEastern Africa184.158172.095197.199
8ChadTCDMiddle Africa182.433167.988198.291
9South SudanSSDEastern Africa180.053151.729212.690
10NigeriaNGAWestern Africa177.278166.966188.019
11Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa176.005163.540189.738
12Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa174.833156.795194.581
13SomaliaSOMEastern Africa173.230136.028226.058
14MalawiMWIEastern Africa170.984160.365182.242
15GuineaGINWestern Africa165.681153.593178.568
16Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa165.458149.898184.107
17MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa164.621152.148178.001
18Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa154.491137.694177.868
19BurundiBDIEastern Africa152.387138.146168.703
20ZambiaZMBEastern Africa151.756141.134163.182
21CameroonCMRMiddle Africa143.926132.921156.348
22UgandaUGAEastern Africa143.852134.687153.300
23Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa140.435130.412151.960
24EthiopiaETHEastern Africa140.127130.499150.563
25BeninBENWestern Africa134.971126.019144.446

02In 2000

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Niger227.855
  2. 2Sierra Leone222.837
  3. 3Liberia194.858
  4. 4Mali189.931
  5. 5Angola184.988

Lowest

  1. 200Singapore3.850
  2. 199Iceland3.916
  3. 198Sweden4.099
  4. 197Finland4.277
  5. 196Japan4.500

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 30.432. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestNiger210.509

    LowestIceland3.499

    Middle country: 26.181

  • Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestNiger246.895

    LowestSingapore4.083

    Middle country: 34.079

031999 → 2000

Since 1999

What changed between 1999 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 199values changed, of 200 in both
  • 10 · 189rose · 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 2000.

  • 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) (2000). Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2000 [data set], describing 2000. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/under-five-mortality/2000

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07Questions

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2000: questions and answers

Which country has the highest under-five mortality rate in Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2000?

Niger, at 227.855, of the 200 countries in the file.

What year does Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2000 describe?

2000.

How many countries does Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2000 cover?

200.

Where can I download Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2000?

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, 2000 the newest?

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

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