Neonatal Mortality Rate, 1979

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Neonatal Mortality Rate, 1979: 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	BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia	91.669	85.048	98.887
2	MaliMLIWestern Africa	87.659	78.040	98.270
3	NepalNPLSouthern Asia	76.964	69.914	85.189
4	ComorosCOMEastern Africa	75.437	61.735	92.461
5	LiberiaLBRWestern Africa	74.580	64.373	86.278
6	IndiaINDSouthern Asia	73.850	69.262	78.880
7	GuineaGINWestern Africa	72.343	62.589	83.204
8	PakistanPAKSouthern Asia	71.834	65.890	78.336
9	EthiopiaETHEastern Africa	67.243	59.077	76.304
10	HaitiHTICaribbean	61.212	53.420	70.186
11	YemenYEMWestern Asia	61.107	54.948	68.012
12	Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa	61.020	53.768	69.430
13	ChadTCDMiddle Africa	60.657	52.767	70.356
14	RwandaRWAEastern Africa	60.606	54.377	68.108
15	NigerNERWestern Africa	57.960	50.275	66.532
16	Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa	57.854	51.469	64.996
17	MalawiMWIEastern Africa	57.639	51.339	64.789
18	DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa	56.824	43.344	74.147
19	CambodiaKHMSouth-eastern Asia	55.613	47.423	65.159
20	NigeriaNGAWestern Africa	54.710	48.077	62.011
21	MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa	54.151	48.240	60.983
22	EgyptEGYNorthern Africa	54.063	49.601	58.974
23	Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa	54.056	45.716	63.880
24	UgandaUGAEastern Africa	53.017	46.416	60.239
25	CameroonCMRMiddle Africa	52.609	46.413	59.763

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 28.096. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

• Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

  HighestBangladesh85.048

  LowestSweden4.994

  Middle country: 23.328

• Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

  HighestBangladesh98.887

  LowestSweden5.399

  Middle country: 35.644

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+ Albania+ Djibouti+ Kyrgyzstan

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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