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Neonatal Mortality Rate, 1970

1970, as UN IGME’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Neonatal Mortality Rate, 1970 covers 96 countries on 3 measures. Mali is highest, at 99.2540; Japan is lowest, at 8.6986. The middle country reads 31.9778. Against 1969, 92 values changed (11 up, 81 down), 4 countries joined.

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Neonatal Mortality Rate · Data for 1970

HighestMali

99.2540

LowestJapan

8.6986

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 Neonatal Mortality Rate, 1970, 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 96 countries · select a heading to sort

Neonatal Mortality Rate, 1970: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
derived
1MaliMLIWestern Africa99.254085.958114.61
2BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia93.945685.953102.61
3LiberiaLBRWestern Africa90.536577.496105.72
4NepalNPLSouthern Asia87.885778.04299.17
5IndiaINDSouthern Asia84.739978.13692.20
6HaitiHTICaribbean80.994270.26893.31
7Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa77.421367.65488.40
8YemenYEMWestern Asia76.038367.11386.46
9PakistanPAKSouthern Asia75.736068.45883.59
10Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa70.570859.56983.47
11AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa69.785357.81184.06
12MalawiMWIEastern Africa69.264759.11182.11
13NigeriaNGAWestern Africa68.566658.72580.56
14BoliviaBOLSouth America62.171455.34069.89
15LesothoLSOSouthern Africa61.541253.18571.43
16EgyptEGYNorthern Africa61.163155.26367.62
17NigerNERWestern Africa60.751850.70772.86
18RwandaRWAEastern Africa60.155653.14667.97
19GhanaGHAWestern Africa60.051254.63966.59
20CameroonCMRMiddle Africa59.076951.35367.90
21BeninBENWestern Africa58.337951.34966.13
22TürkiyeTURWestern Asia57.293050.99564.36
23MoroccoMARNorthern Africa57.268150.90164.06
24TogoTGOWestern Africa55.142947.72763.71
25MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa55.122448.03563.23

02In 1970

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Mali99.2540
  2. 2Bangladesh93.9456
  3. 3Liberia90.5365
  4. 4Nepal87.8857
  5. 5India84.7399

Lowest

  1. 96Japan8.6986
  2. 95France9.0571
  3. 94Sweden9.2406
  4. 93Netherlands9.4467
  5. 92Iceland9.5858

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 31.9778. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestMali85.958

    LowestJapan8.457

    Middle country: 27.807

  • Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestMali114.61

    LowestJapan8.95

    Middle country: 38.30

031969 → 1970

Since 1969

What changed between 1969 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +4 / −0countries joined / left
  • 92values changed, of 92 in both
  • 11 · 81rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Liberia92.9822 → 90.5365−2.4457
  • Cameroon60.9063 → 59.0769−1.8294
  • Panama34.3193 → 32.5750−1.7443
  • Bolivia63.8003 → 62.1714−1.6290
  • Yemen77.6420 → 76.0383−1.6037
+ Argentina+ Malta+ Uruguay+ Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

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 1970.

  • 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 96 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) (1970). Neonatal Mortality Rate, 1970 [data set], describing 1970. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/neonatal-mortality/1970

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07Questions

Neonatal Mortality Rate, 1970: questions and answers

Which country has the highest neonatal mortality rate in Neonatal Mortality Rate, 1970?

Mali, at 99.2540, of the 96 countries in the file.

What year does Neonatal Mortality Rate, 1970 describe?

1970.

How many countries does Neonatal Mortality Rate, 1970 cover?

96.

Where can I download Neonatal Mortality Rate, 1970?

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

Is Neonatal Mortality Rate, 1970 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Neonatal Mortality Rate, 2024.

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