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Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2020

2020, as UN IGME’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2020 covers 200 countries on 3 measures. Central African Republic is highest, at 124.1879; San Marino is lowest, at 1.4694. The middle country reads 15.3111. Against 2019, 199 values changed (22 up, 177 down), the same countries are covered.

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Under-Five Mortality Rate · Data for 2020

HighestCentral African Republic

124.1879

LowestSan Marino

1.4694

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, 2020, 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, 2020: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
derived
1Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa124.1879100.092154.727
2NigerNERWestern Africa119.518799.812141.959
3NigeriaNGAWestern Africa117.4226106.624129.678
4SomaliaSOMEastern Africa114.701258.133232.837
5ChadTCDMiddle Africa110.586081.725147.367
6Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa104.354387.706123.910
7GuineaGINWestern Africa102.888386.390123.368
8South SudanSSDEastern Africa96.711334.751219.548
9DR CongoCODMiddle Africa92.734278.805109.142
10LiberiaLBRWestern Africa88.328775.595101.498
11MaliMLIWestern Africa87.628578.19598.123
12Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa85.124861.059118.347
13BeninBENWestern Africa84.584570.418101.343
14Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa77.850245.078129.691
15Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa76.745446.925119.835
16CameroonCMRMiddle Africa74.354360.21291.350
17Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa73.041462.49185.499
18MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa67.565557.91179.216
19LesothoLSOSouthern Africa66.269253.83781.163
20MadagascarMDGEastern Africa65.109855.50076.939
21TogoTGOWestern Africa63.942250.29181.440
22PakistanPAKSouthern Asia63.749254.95373.266
23ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa61.654451.96373.479
24AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia60.692349.25373.793
25HaitiHTICaribbean59.764443.99282.128

02In 2020

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 Republic124.1879
  2. 2Niger119.5187
  3. 3Nigeria117.4226
  4. 4Somalia114.7012
  5. 5Chad110.5860

Lowest

  1. 200San Marino1.4694
  2. 199Finland2.3608
  3. 198Slovenia2.3684
  4. 197Luxembourg2.3703
  5. 196Norway2.3781

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 15.3111. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestNigeria106.624

    LowestSan Marino0.747

    Middle country: 12.374

  • Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestSomalia232.837

    LowestJapan2.457

    Middle country: 19.085

032019 → 2020

Since 2019

What changed between 2019 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 199values changed, of 200 in both
  • 22 · 177rose · fell
  • 1unchanged

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 2020.

  • 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) (2020). Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2020 [data set], describing 2020. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/under-five-mortality/2020

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07Questions

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2020: questions and answers

Which country has the highest under-five mortality rate in Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2020?

Central African Republic, at 124.1879, of the 200 countries in the file.

What year does Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2020 describe?

2020.

How many countries does Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2020 cover?

200.

Where can I download Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2020?

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, 2020 the newest?

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

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