Neonatal Mortality Rate, 1981

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Neonatal Mortality Rate, 1981: 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	87.490	81.725	93.746
2	MaliMLIWestern Africa	81.675	72.755	91.106
3	GuineaGINWestern Africa	73.890	64.671	84.772
4	NepalNPLSouthern Asia	73.749	67.248	81.387
5	LiberiaLBRWestern Africa	71.639	61.782	83.061
6	ComorosCOMEastern Africa	71.160	58.747	87.370
7	PakistanPAKSouthern Asia	70.775	65.158	76.644
8	IndiaINDSouthern Asia	70.505	66.206	75.299
9	EthiopiaETHEastern Africa	67.031	59.449	75.490
10	MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa	64.507	55.119	75.398
11	ChadTCDMiddle Africa	59.286	52.023	68.335
12	Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa	58.268	51.160	66.213
13	YemenYEMWestern Asia	57.294	51.809	63.480
14	NigerNERWestern Africa	57.165	49.947	65.403
15	HaitiHTICaribbean	56.478	49.658	64.269
16	MalawiMWIEastern Africa	55.749	49.720	62.377
17	RwandaRWAEastern Africa	55.602	50.048	62.090
18	Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa	55.264	49.250	61.939
19	DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa	55.032	43.074	70.050
20	MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa	53.637	47.540	60.815
21	Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa	53.320	45.247	62.752
22	NigeriaNGAWestern Africa	52.383	46.298	59.139
23	UgandaUGAEastern Africa	51.782	45.630	58.536
24	EgyptEGYNorthern Africa	51.047	46.797	55.684
25	GhanaGHAWestern Africa	51.040	46.450	55.946

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 26.277. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

• Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

  HighestBangladesh81.725

  LowestJapan4.454

  Middle country: 22.229

• Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

  HighestBangladesh93.746

  LowestJapan4.716

  Middle country: 32.181

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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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