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Malaria Mortality (P. falciparum), 2017

2017, as MAP’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Malaria Mortality (P. falciparum), 2017 covers 79 countries on 3 measures. Sierra Leone is highest, at 155.439320; El Salvador is lowest, at 0.000000. The middle country reads 8.613162. Against 2016, 77 values changed (31 up, 46 down), 2 countries joined, 4 left.

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Malaria Mortality (P. falciparum) · Data for 2017

HighestSierra Leone

155.439320

LowestEl Salvador

0.000000

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the lowest end. A higher value is the worse result.

01Values only

The table

Every country and every column of Malaria Mortality (P. falciparum), 2017, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 79 countries · select a heading to sort

Malaria Mortality (P. falciparum), 2017: every country, as published by Malaria Atlas Project (MAP).
Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa155.43932088.316925241.62901
NigerNERWestern Africa138.26178653.723700267.33080
LiberiaLBRWestern Africa108.25134659.878538170.49707
Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa104.41859766.462754155.42195
BeninBENWestern Africa97.87779651.638815157.62946
DR CongoCODMiddle Africa95.91685052.440254143.02398
GuineaGINWestern Africa95.30445146.717163170.09756
BurundiBDIEastern Africa94.60737848.901989160.02990
Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa93.10022841.528065192.70174
NigeriaNGAWestern Africa91.81365530.212358181.09305
CameroonCMRMiddle Africa91.13018242.166334150.69657
MaliMLIWestern Africa89.14989141.467496156.72361
Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa81.99157043.109649142.04580
Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa77.27044845.340026125.79302
TogoTGOWestern Africa67.37425529.800778118.62199
UgandaUGAEastern Africa66.79820332.106022109.26559
GhanaGHAWestern Africa55.75555525.235539101.35262
South SudanSSDEastern Africa52.84074123.38862393.96330
Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa48.25406116.969640104.92247
MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa47.99646921.73742188.37848
ChadTCDMiddle Africa45.39056719.71500990.35527
AngolaAGOMiddle Africa42.04009218.43671983.67317
MalawiMWIEastern Africa39.79147618.37779675.91660
GabonGABMiddle Africa38.50428912.04285781.91545
ZambiaZMBEastern Africa31.23497611.36135862.76609

02In 2017

At either end

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

Highest

  1. Sierra Leone155.439320
  2. Niger138.261786
  3. Liberia108.251346
  4. Burkina Faso104.418597
  5. Benin97.877796

Lowest

  1. El Salvador0.000000
  2. Iran0.000002
  3. Panama0.000073
  4. Oman0.000176
  5. Saudi Arabia0.002676

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 8.613162. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Lower bound (uncertainty interval)

    HighestSierra Leone88.316925

    LowestPanama0.000000

    Middle country: 3.013167

  • Upper bound (uncertainty interval)

    HighestNiger267.33080

    LowestEl Salvador0.00000

    Middle country: 19.67003

032016 → 2017

Since 2016

What changed between 2016 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +2 / −4countries joined / left
  • 77values changed, of 77 in both
  • 31 · 46rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

  • Burundi90.635174 → 94.607378+3.972204
  • Namibia2.010432 → 5.753374+3.742942
  • Zimbabwe6.630119 → 9.532094+2.901975
  • Senegal20.891758 → 23.537396+2.645638
  • Liberia105.684221 → 108.251346+2.567124

Fell most

  • Gambia43.716541 → 25.098685−18.617856
  • Mali104.059276 → 89.149891−14.909385
  • Equatorial Guinea91.814316 → 77.270448−14.543868
  • Togo76.695329 → 67.374255−9.321074
  • Ghana64.557673 → 55.755555−8.802118
+ Iran+ El Salvador− Bolivia− Bhutan− Guatemala− Thailand

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.

The site’s method

  • One year of the 2025 release

    Every year in this series comes from MAP’s 2025 release, recalculated on one method. It can differ from what was first published for 2017.

  • Which end is better

    A higher value is the worse result.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 79 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. Share, adapt and use commercially. Credit the publisher and say if you changed anything.

Cite this edition

Malaria Atlas Project (MAP) (2017). Malaria Mortality (P. falciparum), 2017 [data set], describing 2017. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/falciparum-malaria-mortality/2017

0625 held

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07Questions

Malaria Mortality (P. falciparum), 2017: questions and answers

Which country has the highest malaria deaths (falciparum) in Malaria Mortality (P. falciparum), 2017?

Sierra Leone, at 155.439320, of the 79 countries in the file.

What year does Malaria Mortality (P. falciparum), 2017 describe?

2017.

How many countries does Malaria Mortality (P. falciparum), 2017 cover?

79.

Where can I download Malaria Mortality (P. falciparum), 2017?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Malaria Mortality (P. falciparum), 2017 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Malaria Mortality (P. falciparum), 2024.

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