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Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2023

2023, as UN IGME’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2023 covers 200 countries on 3 measures. Nigeria is highest, at 116.816; San Marino is lowest, at 1.307. The middle country reads 15.239. Against 2022, 200 values changed (35 up, 165 down), the same countries are covered.

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Under-Five Mortality Rate · Data for 2023

HighestNigeria

116.816

LowestSan Marino

1.307

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, 2023, 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, 2023: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
derived
1NigeriaNGAWestern Africa116.816101.7963134.522
2NigerNERWestern Africa113.46887.4210146.259
3SomaliaSOMEastern Africa104.29048.8071225.405
4ChadTCDMiddle Africa100.58167.6241147.965
5South SudanSSDEastern Africa96.71126.7644265.634
6GuineaGINWestern Africa94.95073.2498123.860
7Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa93.77272.7987121.133
8Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa92.60669.1809123.707
9DR CongoCODMiddle Africa91.31473.3559115.207
10LiberiaLBRWestern Africa87.29468.8499106.117
11Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa77.35949.9519118.990
12BeninBENWestern Africa77.18358.9024101.605
13MaliMLIWestern Africa76.20965.035588.341
14Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa70.44337.4451128.618
15Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa69.69639.0205118.183
16CameroonCMRMiddle Africa66.97649.107489.625
17Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa66.54353.709282.384
18ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa64.19846.962786.174
19MadagascarMDGEastern Africa63.63050.257481.333
20SudanSDNNorthern Africa63.08841.245696.004
21MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa61.65149.447377.118
22LesothoLSOSouthern Africa61.31244.731182.452
23TogoTGOWestern Africa58.06941.404481.361
24PakistanPAKSouthern Asia57.80046.706270.755
25AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia54.86542.017271.924

02In 2023

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Nigeria116.816
  2. 2Niger113.468
  3. 3Somalia104.290
  4. 4Chad100.581
  5. 5South Sudan96.711

Lowest

  1. 200San Marino1.307
  2. 199Estonia2.100
  3. 198Luxembourg2.237
  4. 197Slovenia2.290
  5. 196Finland2.355

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 15.239. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestNigeria101.7963

    LowestSan Marino0.6227

    Middle country: 10.6555

  • Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestSouth Sudan265.634

    LowestJapan2.453

    Middle country: 19.516

032022 → 2023

Since 2022

What changed between 2022 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 200values changed, of 200 in both
  • 35 · 165rose · 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 2023.

  • 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) (2023). Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2023 [data set], describing 2023. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/under-five-mortality/2023

0673 held

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07Questions

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2023: questions and answers

Which country has the highest under-five mortality rate in Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2023?

Nigeria, at 116.816, of the 200 countries in the file.

What year does Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2023 describe?

2023.

How many countries does Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2023 cover?

200.

Where can I download Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2023?

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, 2023 the newest?

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

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