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Mortality Rate, Ages 5–14, 1998

1998, as UN IGME’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Mortality Rate, Ages 5–14, 1998 covers 200 countries on 3 measures. South Sudan is highest, at 266.79831; Luxembourg is lowest, at 0.93900. The middle country reads 5.04484. Against 1997, 199 values changed (21 up, 178 down), the same countries are covered.

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Mortality Rate, Ages 5–14 · Data for 1998

HighestSouth Sudan

266.79831

LowestLuxembourg

0.93900

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, 1998, 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, 1998: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
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1South SudanSSDEastern Africa266.79831207.2303342.0891
2RwandaRWAEastern Africa70.4702661.491580.3761
3BurundiBDIEastern Africa63.3392252.239476.2731
4NigerNERWestern Africa53.4926747.516160.5114
5EthiopiaETHEastern Africa46.6153640.718853.7940
6DR CongoCODMiddle Africa44.6143137.042453.8902
7AngolaAGOMiddle Africa42.6409033.252054.3148
8Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia40.5605131.800251.7856
9ChadTCDMiddle Africa39.2319934.119045.0728
10MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa37.8443232.578444.1501
11SomaliaSOMEastern Africa37.5361029.303148.1894
12LiberiaLBRWestern Africa35.8986928.535346.6928
13Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa35.4852030.597441.1136
14Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa34.3873826.638245.4961
15MaliMLIWestern Africa34.3492730.798738.4662
16SudanSDNNorthern Africa34.0678327.881142.9774
17SenegalSENWestern Africa33.7621929.912138.4994
18GuineaGINWestern Africa32.9890329.013837.5629
19Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa32.6079021.977648.0177
20BeninBENWestern Africa32.4655428.631136.4902
21NigeriaNGAWestern Africa31.9553728.533136.3925
22Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa31.7776924.859640.7757
23HondurasHNDCentral America31.5996725.798138.0005
24CameroonCMRMiddle Africa30.3841427.040234.5956
25Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa27.1824220.355334.0048

02In 1998

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1South Sudan266.79831
  2. 2Rwanda70.47026
  3. 3Burundi63.33922
  4. 4Niger53.49267
  5. 5Ethiopia46.61536

Lowest

  1. 200Luxembourg0.93900
  2. 199Sweden1.20320
  3. 198Malta1.22045
  4. 197Germany1.32330
  5. 196Japan1.32703

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 5.04484. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

031997 → 1998

Since 1997

What changed between 1997 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 199values changed, of 200 in both
  • 21 · 178rose · fell
  • 1unchanged

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.

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 1998.

  • 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) (1998). Mortality Rate, Ages 5–14, 1998 [data set], describing 1998. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/mortality-5-to-14/1998

0635 held

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07Questions

Mortality Rate, Ages 5–14, 1998: questions and answers

Which country has the highest child mortality at ages 5 to 14 in Mortality Rate, Ages 5–14, 1998?

South Sudan, at 266.79831, of the 200 countries in the file.

What year does Mortality Rate, Ages 5–14, 1998 describe?

1998.

How many countries does Mortality Rate, Ages 5–14, 1998 cover?

200.

Where can I download Mortality Rate, Ages 5–14, 1998?

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, 1998 the newest?

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

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