Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2021

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Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2021: 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	Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa	178.700	141.32020	227.502
2	NigerNERWestern Africa	118.010	96.18724	143.601
3	NigeriaNGAWestern Africa	117.556	105.44674	131.052
4	SomaliaSOMEastern Africa	111.000	54.78074	229.552
5	ChadTCDMiddle Africa	107.252	76.48141	147.831
6	Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa	100.632	82.65061	122.754
7	GuineaGINWestern Africa	100.319	82.25802	123.374
8	South SudanSSDEastern Africa	96.711	32.06539	233.956
9	DR CongoCODMiddle Africa	92.913	77.73255	111.634
10	LiberiaLBRWestern Africa	88.008	73.76078	102.320
11	MaliMLIWestern Africa	83.607	73.61404	94.620
12	Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa	82.415	57.17334	118.620
13	BeninBENWestern Africa	82.189	66.48692	101.311
14	Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa	75.124	42.33387	128.929
15	Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa	74.350	44.21141	119.378
16	CameroonCMRMiddle Africa	71.922	56.43626	90.953
17	Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa	70.801	59.71295	84.192
18	EthiopiaETHEastern Africa	70.351	54.35488	90.555
19	MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa	65.523	55.20234	78.317
20	MadagascarMDGEastern Africa	65.025	54.12557	78.886
21	LesothoLSOSouthern Africa	64.012	50.05477	80.711
22	ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa	62.375	51.38445	75.896
23	TogoTGOWestern Africa	61.971	47.20896	81.405
24	PakistanPAKSouthern Asia	61.738	52.24369	72.132
25	AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia	58.712	46.74996	73.233

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 15.073. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

• Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

  HighestCentral African Republic141.32020

  LowestSan Marino0.70046

  Middle country: 11.70082

• Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

  HighestSouth Sudan233.956

  LowestJapan2.430

  Middle country: 19.025

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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.

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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.

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