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Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2001

2001, as UN IGME’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2001 covers 200 countries on 3 measures. Malawi is highest, at 238.99; Singapore is lowest, at 3.61. The middle country reads 29.05. Against 2000, 199 values changed (9 up, 190 down), the same countries are covered.

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Under-Five Mortality Rate · Data for 2001

HighestMalawi

238.99

LowestSingapore

3.61

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, 2001, 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, 2001: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
derived
1MalawiMWIEastern Africa238.99223.9197254.628
2NigerNERWestern Africa217.42200.5053236.290
3Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa217.26202.7334232.782
4MaliMLIWestern Africa183.90172.4476195.964
5LiberiaLBRWestern Africa181.66168.0467196.802
6ChadTCDMiddle Africa179.02164.6765194.905
7DR CongoCODMiddle Africa178.45161.9295196.947
8AngolaAGOMiddle Africa176.33154.7470201.580
9SomaliaSOMEastern Africa173.23136.0284226.058
10Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa171.86159.4947185.670
11South SudanSSDEastern Africa171.07144.6731201.711
12NigeriaNGAWestern Africa170.54160.6012180.825
13Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa169.32151.4996188.964
14RwandaRWAEastern Africa166.51155.1953178.650
15Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa162.49147.0628181.178
16GuineaGINWestern Africa159.00147.1586171.693
17MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa155.74143.8443168.437
18Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa150.20133.1605173.488
19BurundiBDIEastern Africa147.52133.3045163.730
20ZambiaZMBEastern Africa143.19133.1762154.164
21CameroonCMRMiddle Africa141.00129.9891153.005
22UgandaUGAEastern Africa137.20128.3335146.426
23Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa136.91126.8916148.328
24EthiopiaETHEastern Africa133.83124.6863143.901
25BeninBENWestern Africa131.70122.8823141.074

02In 2001

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Malawi238.99
  2. 2Niger217.42
  3. 3Sierra Leone217.26
  4. 4Mali183.90
  5. 5Liberia181.66

Lowest

  1. 200Singapore3.61
  2. 199Iceland3.71
  3. 198Sweden4.05
  4. 197Finland4.16
  5. 196Japan4.30

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 29.05. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestMalawi223.9197

    LowestIceland3.3014

    Middle country: 25.4069

  • Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestMalawi254.628

    LowestSingapore3.827

    Middle country: 33.583

032000 → 2001

Since 2000

What changed between 2000 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 199values changed, of 200 in both
  • 9 · 190rose · 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 2001.

  • 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) (2001). Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2001 [data set], describing 2001. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/under-five-mortality/2001

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07Questions

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2001: questions and answers

Which country has the highest under-five mortality rate in Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2001?

Malawi, at 238.99, of the 200 countries in the file.

What year does Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2001 describe?

2001.

How many countries does Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2001 cover?

200.

Where can I download Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2001?

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, 2001 the newest?

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

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