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Mortality Rate, Ages 5–14, 1997

1997, as UN IGME’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Mortality Rate, Ages 5–14, 1997 covers 200 countries on 3 measures. South Sudan is highest, at 135.44748; Luxembourg is lowest, at 1.01251. The middle country reads 5.23298. Against 1996, 199 values changed (18 up, 181 down), the same countries are covered.

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Mortality Rate, Ages 5–14 · Data for 1997

HighestSouth Sudan

135.44748

LowestLuxembourg

1.01251

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

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Mortality Rate, Ages 5–14, 1997, 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

Mortality Rate, Ages 5–14, 1997: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
derived
1South SudanSSDEastern Africa135.44748105.2062173.671
2RwandaRWAEastern Africa80.5484570.304892.230
3BurundiBDIEastern Africa64.5329753.090078.536
4NigerNERWestern Africa54.8715648.705962.223
5EthiopiaETHEastern Africa49.5408243.128157.304
6DR CongoCODMiddle Africa48.2272739.714258.855
7AngolaAGOMiddle Africa43.6897934.069955.651
8MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa40.2437634.410647.350
9ChadTCDMiddle Africa40.2311134.872046.381
10Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa38.4606224.181659.929
11Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia38.4403530.138049.079
12SomaliaSOMEastern Africa37.5361029.303148.189
13LiberiaLBRWestern Africa37.2481929.251349.369
14Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa35.9207331.126841.489
15Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa35.3818726.579249.406
16MaliMLIWestern Africa35.0402031.429339.219
17GuineaGINWestern Africa34.0954929.937138.917
18SenegalSENWestern Africa33.7170329.999538.311
19BeninBENWestern Africa33.3576629.371137.516
20NigeriaNGAWestern Africa32.6845129.087437.502
21Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa32.3566325.312541.519
22CameroonCMRMiddle Africa30.6220427.264534.797
23MalawiMWIEastern Africa28.3424725.571931.332
24LaosLAOSouth-eastern Asia28.0467423.411633.751
25TogoTGOWestern Africa27.5653323.411833.494

02In 1997

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1South Sudan135.44748
  2. 2Rwanda80.54845
  3. 3Burundi64.53297
  4. 4Niger54.87156
  5. 5Ethiopia49.54082

Lowest

  1. 200Luxembourg1.01251
  2. 199Malta1.22326
  3. 198Sweden1.22415
  4. 197Germany1.37428
  5. 196Japan1.38018

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 5.23298. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

031996 → 1997

Since 1996

What changed between 1996 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 199values changed, of 200 in both
  • 18 · 181rose · fell
  • 1unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Burundi76.52179 → 64.53297−11.98882
  • Rwanda89.87579 → 80.54845−9.32733
  • Liberia43.15866 → 37.24819−5.91047
  • South Sudan139.45452 → 135.44748−4.00704
  • Ethiopia52.61755 → 49.54082−3.07673

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 UN IGME’s 2025 release, recalculated on one method. It can differ from what was first published for 1997.

  • The position is ours

    UN IGME publishes values only. The order here sorts the published values, and the page says so wherever it prints one.

  • Which end is better

    A higher value is the worse result.

  • 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. The version of CC BY written for intergovernmental organisations. Credit the publisher and say what you changed.

Cite this edition

UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME) (1997). Mortality Rate, Ages 5–14, 1997 [data set], describing 1997. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/mortality-5-to-14/1997

0635 held

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07Questions

Mortality Rate, Ages 5–14, 1997: questions and answers

Which country has the highest child mortality at ages 5 to 14 in Mortality Rate, Ages 5–14, 1997?

South Sudan, at 135.44748, of the 200 countries in the file.

What year does Mortality Rate, Ages 5–14, 1997 describe?

1997.

How many countries does Mortality Rate, Ages 5–14, 1997 cover?

200.

Where can I download Mortality Rate, Ages 5–14, 1997?

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

Is Mortality Rate, Ages 5–14, 1997 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Mortality Rate, Ages 5–14, 2024.

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