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Neonatal Mortality Rate, 1971

1971, as UN IGME’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Neonatal Mortality Rate, 1971 covers 100 countries on 3 measures. Mali is highest, at 98.973; Japan is lowest, at 8.240. The middle country reads 31.102. Against 1970, 96 values changed (14 up, 82 down), 4 countries joined.

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Neonatal Mortality Rate · Data for 1971

HighestMali

98.973

LowestJapan

8.240

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, 1971, 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 100 countries · select a heading to sort

Neonatal Mortality Rate, 1971: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
derived
1MaliMLIWestern Africa98.97386.214113.8106
2BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia96.04088.200104.4946
3LiberiaLBRWestern Africa88.30475.531102.9313
4NepalNPLSouthern Asia86.72477.14697.6656
5IndiaINDSouthern Asia84.11877.71091.1118
6HaitiHTICaribbean79.32768.81390.9780
7Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa75.61366.30385.9439
8PakistanPAKSouthern Asia75.12567.95182.6440
9YemenYEMWestern Asia74.38265.88284.3661
10Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa70.63460.20483.1555
11MalawiMWIEastern Africa68.30758.71279.9573
12AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa68.06956.77781.5021
13NigeriaNGAWestern Africa65.51555.98676.9618
14EgyptEGYNorthern Africa61.30755.42967.6784
15NigerNERWestern Africa61.25951.62272.9641
16BoliviaBOLSouth America60.65854.10668.0141
17LesothoLSOSouthern Africa60.37651.90270.3140
18RwandaRWAEastern Africa60.24453.44467.9092
19GhanaGHAWestern Africa59.47554.23465.7632
20Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa58.55047.95771.3748
21BeninBENWestern Africa57.61650.87165.1237
22CameroonCMRMiddle Africa57.45249.82965.9559
23TürkiyeTURWestern Asia56.61850.45163.5302
24MoroccoMARNorthern Africa56.40450.08063.0951
25MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa55.11948.11263.0583

02In 1971

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Mali98.973
  2. 2Bangladesh96.040
  3. 3Liberia88.304
  4. 4Nepal86.724
  5. 5India84.118

Lowest

  1. 100Japan8.240
  2. 99Sweden8.805
  3. 98France8.870
  4. 97Netherlands9.128
  5. 96Iceland9.219

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 31.102. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestBangladesh88.200

    LowestJapan8.012

    Middle country: 27.645

  • Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestMali113.8106

    LowestJapan8.4739

    Middle country: 37.7880

031970 → 1971

Since 1970

What changed between 1970 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +4 / −0countries joined / left
  • 96values changed, of 96 in both
  • 14 · 82rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Antigua and Barbuda+ Bahrain+ Central African Republic+ Oman

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 1971.

  • 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 100 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) (1971). Neonatal Mortality Rate, 1971 [data set], describing 1971. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/neonatal-mortality/1971

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07Questions

Neonatal Mortality Rate, 1971: questions and answers

Which country has the highest neonatal mortality rate in Neonatal Mortality Rate, 1971?

Mali, at 98.973, of the 100 countries in the file.

What year does Neonatal Mortality Rate, 1971 describe?

1971.

How many countries does Neonatal Mortality Rate, 1971 cover?

100.

Where can I download Neonatal Mortality Rate, 1971?

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, 1971 the newest?

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

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