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Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2015

2015, as UN IGME’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2015 covers 200 countries on 3 measures. South Sudan is highest, at 240.7914; San Marino is lowest, at 1.9053. The middle country reads 17.8547. Against 2014, 200 values changed (26 up, 174 down), the same countries are covered.

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Under-Five Mortality Rate · Data for 2015

HighestSouth Sudan

240.7914

LowestSan Marino

1.9053

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, 2015, 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, 2015: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
derived
1South SudanSSDEastern Africa240.7914125.775409.6906
2Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa136.7517124.045151.1070
3SomaliaSOMEastern Africa134.311579.242234.5976
4ChadTCDMiddle Africa128.6948108.013151.7038
5NigerNERWestern Africa125.3881111.350141.2028
6NigeriaNGAWestern Africa117.8214109.072127.3116
7GuineaGINWestern Africa113.7390101.697127.2556
8Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa113.706597.147132.8745
9MaliMLIWestern Africa109.7246100.746119.4156
10Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa100.755083.556122.2224
11BeninBENWestern Africa96.136686.022107.3071
12LiberiaLBRWestern Africa93.213383.454104.5524
13Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa92.126562.107132.0287
14DR CongoCODMiddle Africa91.922579.846105.2114
15Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa91.601565.687124.1307
16CameroonCMRMiddle Africa88.499779.40999.0602
17Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa85.482476.99694.9766
18MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa75.806668.11884.5188
19TogoTGOWestern Africa75.188765.64286.2570
20LesothoLSOSouthern Africa75.112967.40684.4068
21PakistanPAKSouthern Asia74.798568.96981.4194
22AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia71.898463.72980.7452
23HaitiHTICaribbean69.124857.83984.3535
24BurundiBDIEastern Africa66.937650.78387.8064
25MadagascarMDGEastern Africa65.257458.29272.6842

02In 2015

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1South Sudan240.7914
  2. 2Sierra Leone136.7517
  3. 3Somalia134.3115
  4. 4Chad128.6948
  5. 5Niger125.3881

Lowest

  1. 200San Marino1.9053
  2. 199Finland2.4879
  3. 198Cyprus2.5037
  4. 197Luxembourg2.5380
  5. 196Iceland2.6150

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 17.8547. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

032014 → 2015

Since 2014

What changed between 2014 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 200values changed, of 200 in both
  • 26 · 174rose · 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 2015.

  • 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) (2015). Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2015 [data set], describing 2015. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/under-five-mortality/2015

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07Questions

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2015: questions and answers

Which country has the highest under-five mortality rate in Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2015?

South Sudan, at 240.7914, of the 200 countries in the file.

What year does Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2015 describe?

2015.

How many countries does Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2015 cover?

200.

Where can I download Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2015?

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, 2015 the newest?

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

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