Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2016

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Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2016: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).

Positionderived	Country	Deaths before age five (per 1,000 live births)	Lower bound (90% uncertainty)	Upper bound (90% uncertainty)
1	South SudanSSDEastern Africa	272.8805	132.796	490.408
2	SomaliaSOMEastern Africa	130.1963	74.566	234.749
3	Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa	126.7689	107.214	149.442
4	ChadTCDMiddle Africa	124.9747	103.369	149.763
5	NigerNERWestern Africa	124.2832	109.504	140.460
6	Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa	121.7537	109.384	136.025
7	NigeriaNGAWestern Africa	117.3550	108.418	127.233
8	GuineaGINWestern Africa	111.3803	98.706	125.642
9	MaliMLIWestern Africa	105.1324	96.298	114.830
10	Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa	97.4259	78.817	120.995
11	BeninBENWestern Africa	93.9701	83.450	105.637
12	DR CongoCODMiddle Africa	91.5183	79.500	104.945
13	LiberiaLBRWestern Africa	91.5099	81.625	103.034
14	Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa	89.0129	58.318	131.166
15	Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa	88.2211	61.299	122.986
16	CameroonCMRMiddle Africa	85.0799	75.808	96.111
17	Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa	82.9818	74.294	92.638
18	MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa	73.2636	65.441	82.233
19	TogoTGOWestern Africa	72.7936	62.609	84.642
20	PakistanPAKSouthern Asia	72.4294	66.319	79.434
21	LesothoLSOSouthern Africa	71.3904	63.396	80.633
22	AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia	69.3719	60.720	78.758
23	HaitiHTICaribbean	67.2410	55.063	83.749
24	MadagascarMDGEastern Africa	64.9249	57.914	72.732
25	BurundiBDIEastern Africa	63.7037	46.693	86.085

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 17.5459. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

• Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

  HighestSouth Sudan132.796

  LowestSan Marino1.038

  Middle country: 14.766

• Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

  HighestSouth Sudan490.408

  LowestFinland2.572

  Middle country: 19.396

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