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Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2022

2022, as UN IGME’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2022 covers 200 countries on 3 measures. Central African Republic is highest, at 424.57920; San Marino is lowest, at 1.35953. The middle country reads 14.65407. Against 2021, 199 values changed (32 up, 167 down), the same countries are covered.

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Under-Five Mortality Rate · Data for 2022

HighestCentral African Republic

424.57920

LowestSan Marino

1.35953

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, 2022, 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, 2022: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
derived
1Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa424.57920327.998553.1304
2SomaliaSOMEastern Africa143.0631569.085302.1513
3NigeriaNGAWestern Africa117.45526104.006132.8001
4NigerNERWestern Africa115.9877392.061144.8764
5ChadTCDMiddle Africa103.8756972.098148.6274
6GuineaGINWestern Africa97.6290177.682123.5566
7Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa97.0946977.717121.6731
8South SudanSSDEastern Africa96.7113329.261249.0886
9DR CongoCODMiddle Africa92.4828375.988113.4855
10LiberiaLBRWestern Africa87.7786471.495103.9684
11Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa79.8139753.479119.0026
12MaliMLIWestern Africa79.7216469.18091.2815
13BeninBENWestern Africa79.6440962.615101.4992
14Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa72.8071739.794128.5524
15Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa72.0308941.451119.0685
16CameroonCMRMiddle Africa69.4258752.81990.1316
17Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa68.6941456.64683.0752
18EthiopiaETHEastern Africa68.0600050.83790.5636
19MadagascarMDGEastern Africa64.4928652.34380.2104
20ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa64.0362850.01881.2122
21MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa63.9277152.70278.2668
22LesothoLSOSouthern Africa62.0399446.86780.7157
23TogoTGOWestern Africa60.0341644.14981.4168
24PakistanPAKSouthern Asia59.7256749.53171.2198
25AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia56.7704044.27572.4823

02In 2022

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 Republic424.57920
  2. 2Somalia143.06315
  3. 3Nigeria117.45526
  4. 4Niger115.98773
  5. 5Chad103.87569

Lowest

  1. 200San Marino1.35953
  2. 199Estonia2.19477
  3. 198Luxembourg2.28956
  4. 197Slovenia2.31395
  5. 196Finland2.35537

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 14.65407. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

032021 → 2022

Since 2021

What changed between 2021 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 199values changed, of 200 in both
  • 32 · 167rose · fell
  • 1unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Mali83.60687 → 79.72164−3.88522
  • Sierra Leone100.63169 → 97.09469−3.53701
  • Chad107.25196 → 103.87569−3.37627
  • Guinea100.31943 → 97.62901−2.69042
  • Burkina Faso82.41526 → 79.81397−2.60129

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 2022.

  • 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) (2022). Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2022 [data set], describing 2022. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/under-five-mortality/2022

0673 held

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07Questions

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2022: questions and answers

Which country has the highest under-five mortality rate in Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2022?

Central African Republic, at 424.57920, of the 200 countries in the file.

What year does Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2022 describe?

2022.

How many countries does Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2022 cover?

200.

Where can I download Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2022?

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, 2022 the newest?

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

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