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Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2017

2017, as UN IGME’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2017 covers 200 countries on 3 measures. South Sudan is highest, at 292.04826; San Marino is lowest, at 1.70222. The middle country reads 16.78509. Against 2016, 200 values changed (24 up, 176 down), the same countries are covered.

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Under-Five Mortality Rate · Data for 2017

HighestSouth Sudan

292.04826

LowestSan Marino

1.70222

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, 2017, 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, 2017: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
derived
1South SudanSSDEastern Africa292.04826130.992552.207
2SomaliaSOMEastern Africa156.4385487.177290.123
3Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa155.20776129.933185.120
4NigerNERWestern Africa123.09804107.627140.176
5ChadTCDMiddle Africa121.3570997.827148.686
6NigeriaNGAWestern Africa117.17489107.942127.448
7Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa116.97480103.599132.341
8GuineaGINWestern Africa109.5434696.143124.970
9MaliMLIWestern Africa100.6474291.761110.289
10Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa94.1162774.263119.988
11BeninBENWestern Africa91.7506080.738103.936
12DR CongoCODMiddle Africa91.4546479.439105.129
13LiberiaLBRWestern Africa90.2990580.202102.172
14Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa86.1151954.527130.712
15Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa85.1305257.425121.844
16CameroonCMRMiddle Africa81.8696671.85493.907
17Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa80.5291671.62490.708
18MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa71.9671463.83881.346
19TogoTGOWestern Africa70.4279259.51783.217
20PakistanPAKSouthern Asia70.1374963.53677.630
21LesothoLSOSouthern Africa70.1006461.44979.982
22AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia67.0705757.72977.210
23HaitiHTICaribbean65.3183552.25683.035
24MadagascarMDGEastern Africa64.8724357.64173.163
25DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa61.1747038.94994.279

02In 2017

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1South Sudan292.04826
  2. 2Somalia156.43854
  3. 3Central African Republic155.20776
  4. 4Niger123.09804
  5. 5Chad121.35709

Lowest

  1. 200San Marino1.70222
  2. 199Finland2.40641
  3. 198Luxembourg2.46635
  4. 197Slovenia2.48755
  5. 196Norway2.52943

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 16.78509. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

032016 → 2017

Since 2016

What changed between 2016 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 200values changed, of 200 in both
  • 24 · 176rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Sierra Leone121.75370 → 116.97480−4.77890
  • Mali105.13240 → 100.64742−4.48498
  • Chad124.97473 → 121.35709−3.61764
  • Burkina Faso97.42595 → 94.11627−3.30968
  • Cameroon85.07988 → 81.86966−3.21021

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 2017.

  • 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) (2017). Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2017 [data set], describing 2017. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/under-five-mortality/2017

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07Questions

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2017: questions and answers

Which country has the highest under-five mortality rate in Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2017?

South Sudan, at 292.04826, of the 200 countries in the file.

What year does Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2017 describe?

2017.

How many countries does Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2017 cover?

200.

Where can I download Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2017?

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, 2017 the newest?

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

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