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Mortality Rate, Ages 5–14, 2008

2008, as UN IGME’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Mortality Rate, Ages 5–14, 2008 covers 200 countries on 3 measures. Myanmar is highest, at 46.9284; Luxembourg is lowest, at 0.5410. The middle country reads 3.6991. Against 2007, 200 values changed (15 up, 185 down), the same countries are covered.

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Mortality Rate, Ages 5–14 · Data for 2008

HighestMyanmar

46.9284

LowestLuxembourg

0.5410

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, 2008, 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, 2008: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
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1MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia46.928435.0392467.313
2NigerNERWestern Africa41.159335.3151547.186
3SomaliaSOMEastern Africa36.191228.2531946.463
4ChadTCDMiddle Africa30.835626.9302835.101
5Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa28.585322.4389439.365
6MaliMLIWestern Africa27.981024.8377131.443
7BurundiBDIEastern Africa27.710822.5532733.899
8CameroonCMRMiddle Africa26.690823.5238030.415
9Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa26.355322.8231630.147
10South SudanSSDEastern Africa26.205220.3543733.600
11BeninBENWestern Africa25.793623.0408428.851
12DR CongoCODMiddle Africa25.632522.3204829.474
13NigeriaNGAWestern Africa25.435322.9299628.095
14GuineaGINWestern Africa24.359221.1862627.867
15Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa23.562719.9706428.207
16Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa23.394318.3013130.018
17Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa23.099319.4100727.577
18Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa22.164519.1994525.921
19EthiopiaETHEastern Africa22.080919.1124625.586
20AngolaAGOMiddle Africa22.035017.1831828.068
21RwandaRWAEastern Africa21.856518.6285225.406
22MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa20.381517.4862023.689
23LiberiaLBRWestern Africa20.198416.4718624.264
24SenegalSENWestern Africa20.150918.2367322.293
25TogoTGOWestern Africa18.727516.0490322.173

02In 2008

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Myanmar46.9284
  2. 2Niger41.1593
  3. 3Somalia36.1912
  4. 4Chad30.8356
  5. 5Central African Republic28.5853

Lowest

  1. 200Luxembourg0.5410
  2. 199San Marino0.7886
  3. 198Denmark0.8767
  4. 197Japan0.9283
  5. 196France0.9423

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 3.6991. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestNiger35.31515

    LowestLuxembourg0.43622

    Middle country: 3.41732

  • Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestMyanmar67.313

    LowestLuxembourg0.670

    Middle country: 4.301

032007 → 2008

Since 2007

What changed between 2007 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 200values changed, of 200 in both
  • 15 · 185rose · 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.

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 2008.

  • 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) (2008). Mortality Rate, Ages 5–14, 2008 [data set], describing 2008. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/mortality-5-to-14/2008

0635 held

Other years

07Questions

Mortality Rate, Ages 5–14, 2008: questions and answers

Which country has the highest child mortality at ages 5 to 14 in Mortality Rate, Ages 5–14, 2008?

Myanmar, at 46.9284, of the 200 countries in the file.

What year does Mortality Rate, Ages 5–14, 2008 describe?

2008.

How many countries does Mortality Rate, Ages 5–14, 2008 cover?

200.

Where can I download Mortality Rate, Ages 5–14, 2008?

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, 2008 the newest?

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

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