Neonatal Mortality Rate, 1972

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Neonatal Mortality Rate, 1972: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).

Positionderived	Country	Deaths in the first 28 days (per 1,000 live births)	Lower bound (90% uncertainty)	Upper bound (90% uncertainty)
1	MaliMLIWestern Africa	98.369	86.059	112.598
2	BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia	94.255	86.561	102.772
3	LiberiaLBRWestern Africa	86.090	73.897	99.857
4	NepalNPLSouthern Asia	85.598	76.278	96.176
5	IndiaINDSouthern Asia	83.388	77.173	90.070
6	HaitiHTICaribbean	77.302	67.281	88.588
7	PakistanPAKSouthern Asia	74.603	67.612	81.883
8	Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa	73.412	64.679	83.327
9	YemenYEMWestern Asia	72.843	64.691	82.385
10	Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa	70.745	60.889	82.518
11	MalawiMWIEastern Africa	67.070	58.050	77.830
12	AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa	65.989	55.199	78.400
13	NigeriaNGAWestern Africa	64.071	54.947	74.931
14	NigerNERWestern Africa	61.725	52.514	73.214
15	EgyptEGYNorthern Africa	61.168	55.402	67.458
16	RwandaRWAEastern Africa	60.568	53.729	68.376
17	BoliviaBOLSouth America	59.344	53.097	66.379
18	LesothoLSOSouthern Africa	59.129	50.809	68.854
19	GhanaGHAWestern Africa	58.760	53.501	64.805
20	Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa	57.942	47.746	70.145
21	BeninBENWestern Africa	56.940	50.339	64.251
22	CameroonCMRMiddle Africa	56.198	48.842	64.313
23	TürkiyeTURWestern Asia	55.709	49.566	62.603
24	MoroccoMARNorthern Africa	55.576	49.403	62.201
25	MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa	55.333	48.366	62.997

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 30.258. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

• Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

  HighestBangladesh86.561

  LowestJapan7.567

  Middle country: 27.438

• Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

  HighestMali112.598

  LowestJapan8.010

  Middle country: 35.745

• +4 / −0countries joined / left
• 100values changed, of 100 in both
• 14 · 86rose · fell
• 0unchanged

+ Honduras+ Kazakhstan+ Libya+ Saint Lucia

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.

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