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Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2019

2019, as UN IGME’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2019 covers 200 countries on 3 measures. Central African Republic is highest, at 254.6916; San Marino is lowest, at 1.5376. The middle country reads 15.6957. Against 2018, 200 values changed (30 up, 170 down), the same countries are covered.

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Under-Five Mortality Rate · Data for 2019

HighestCentral African Republic

254.6916

LowestSan Marino

1.5376

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, 2019, 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, 2019: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
derived
1Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa254.6916208.647311.33217
2NigerNERWestern Africa120.7626103.175140.72755
3SomaliaSOMEastern Africa118.368161.914233.62369
4NigeriaNGAWestern Africa117.3666107.285128.52988
5ChadTCDMiddle Africa113.978686.986147.16557
6Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa108.269092.765126.22691
7GuineaGINWestern Africa105.364190.167123.65089
8South SudanSSDEastern Africa96.711337.663206.66807
9DR CongoCODMiddle Africa92.232579.336107.25554
10MaliMLIWestern Africa91.890182.707101.97939
11LiberiaLBRWestern Africa88.736977.125101.35702
12Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa88.091365.305119.01593
13BeninBENWestern Africa87.047473.988101.91606
14Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa80.665647.796129.93954
15Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa79.452950.208120.08938
16CameroonCMRMiddle Africa76.621664.12591.72033
17Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa75.299765.34186.79401
18MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa68.607759.74279.11236
19LesothoLSOSouthern Africa68.114157.04980.90890
20TogoTGOWestern Africa65.961453.36381.81292
21PakistanPAKSouthern Asia65.828957.82474.62562
22MadagascarMDGEastern Africa65.011556.57275.15597
23AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia62.715751.92874.65572
24HaitiHTICaribbean61.472846.79582.37631
25KiribatiKIRMicronesia59.115341.70782.83534

02In 2019

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Central African Republic254.6916
  2. 2Niger120.7626
  3. 3Somalia118.3681
  4. 4Nigeria117.3666
  5. 5Chad113.9786

Lowest

  1. 200San Marino1.5376
  2. 199Finland2.3697
  3. 198Slovenia2.4013
  4. 197Luxembourg2.4031
  5. 196Norway2.4096

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 15.6957. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

032018 → 2019

Since 2018

What changed between 2018 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 200values changed, of 200 in both
  • 30 · 170rose · 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 2019.

  • 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) (2019). Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2019 [data set], describing 2019. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/under-five-mortality/2019

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07Questions

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2019: questions and answers

Which country has the highest under-five mortality rate in Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2019?

Central African Republic, at 254.6916, of the 200 countries in the file.

What year does Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2019 describe?

2019.

How many countries does Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2019 cover?

200.

Where can I download Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2019?

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, 2019 the newest?

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

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