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Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2008

2008, as UN IGME’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2008 covers 200 countries on 3 measures. Sierra Leone is highest, at 172.435; Iceland is lowest, at 2.767. The middle country reads 20.736. Against 2007, 200 values changed (8 up, 192 down), the same countries are covered.

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Under-Five Mortality Rate · Data for 2008

HighestSierra Leone

172.435

LowestIceland

2.767

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, 2008, 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, 2008: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
derived
1Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa172.435160.3511185.207
2SomaliaSOMEastern Africa166.715125.9951226.465
3ChadTCDMiddle Africa154.344139.0617170.965
4NigerNERWestern Africa146.018133.5051159.583
5MaliMLIWestern Africa143.982134.3855154.459
6Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa135.466120.2853152.210
7NigeriaNGAWestern Africa132.549124.3391141.262
8Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa132.082120.1573144.921
9GuineaGINWestern Africa126.879116.3995138.061
10Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa126.462108.2396147.590
11South SudanSSDEastern Africa118.68191.0390151.298
12Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa118.00797.3381143.587
13CameroonCMRMiddle Africa117.211106.7860128.956
14LiberiaLBRWestern Africa114.030104.5269124.280
15BeninBENWestern Africa111.999103.2950121.335
16LesothoLSOSouthern Africa111.616101.2548123.193
17DR CongoCODMiddle Africa109.15397.4673122.120
18Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa108.988100.0543118.610
19MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa104.39495.7737113.563
20BurundiBDIEastern Africa102.64690.1233116.798
21MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia101.72790.2757114.912
22AngolaAGOMiddle Africa99.15581.9780118.062
23EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa97.88186.2577110.837
24AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia96.08788.8193103.733
25TogoTGOWestern Africa93.66685.7292102.508

02In 2008

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Sierra Leone172.435
  2. 2Somalia166.715
  3. 3Chad154.344
  4. 4Niger146.018
  5. 5Mali143.982

Lowest

  1. 200Iceland2.767
  2. 199Singapore2.841
  3. 198San Marino2.912
  4. 197Luxembourg3.005
  5. 196Sweden3.213

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 20.736. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestSierra Leone160.3511

    LowestSan Marino1.9392

    Middle country: 18.9493

  • Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestSomalia226.465

    LowestSingapore3.035

    Middle country: 23.804

032007 → 2008

Since 2007

What changed between 2007 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 200values changed, of 200 in both
  • 8 · 192rose · 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 2008.

  • 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) (2008). Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2008 [data set], describing 2008. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/under-five-mortality/2008

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07Questions

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2008: questions and answers

Which country has the highest under-five mortality rate in Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2008?

Sierra Leone, at 172.435, of the 200 countries in the file.

What year does Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2008 describe?

2008.

How many countries does Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2008 cover?

200.

Where can I download Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2008?

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, 2008 the newest?

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

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