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Neonatal Mortality Rate, 1987

1987, as UN IGME’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Neonatal Mortality Rate, 1987 covers 153 countries on 3 measures. Afghanistan is highest, at 81.036; Japan is lowest, at 2.932. The middle country reads 23.422. Against 1986, 150 values changed (5 up, 145 down), 3 countries joined.

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Neonatal Mortality Rate · Data for 1987

HighestAfghanistan

81.036

LowestJapan

2.932

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, 1987, 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 153 countries · select a heading to sort

Neonatal Mortality Rate, 1987: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
derived
1AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia81.03671.22692.452
2BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia72.52368.37076.948
3MaliMLIWestern Africa71.15764.14078.805
4GuineaGINWestern Africa66.66258.96975.267
5PakistanPAKSouthern Asia66.20861.37970.920
6Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa65.46253.28979.096
7NepalNPLSouthern Asia63.77458.27569.593
8LiberiaLBRWestern Africa63.49354.57173.538
9MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa62.69755.08571.977
10EthiopiaETHEastern Africa62.34655.91169.158
11Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia62.13951.44775.278
12IndiaINDSouthern Asia61.19757.66465.007
13NigerNERWestern Africa57.33950.25965.394
14ComorosCOMEastern Africa55.78146.58266.390
15ChadTCDMiddle Africa54.76648.12162.487
16MalawiMWIEastern Africa52.76246.87058.742
17Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa52.53644.96161.981
18LaosLAOSouth-eastern Asia50.62143.96258.364
19Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa49.98344.79955.690
20DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa49.73240.39460.912
21NigeriaNGAWestern Africa49.28343.68355.111
22Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa48.74843.00854.910
23MaldivesMDVSouthern Asia48.68040.29558.322
24MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa47.38941.79554.036
25YemenYEMWestern Asia47.08142.89551.605

02In 1987

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Afghanistan81.036
  2. 2Bangladesh72.523
  3. 3Mali71.157
  4. 4Guinea66.662
  5. 5Pakistan66.208

Lowest

  1. 153Japan2.932
  2. 152Germany3.265
  3. 151Sweden3.875
  4. 150Iceland3.923
  5. 149Finland4.108

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 23.422. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestAfghanistan71.226

    LowestJapan2.839

    Middle country: 19.822

  • Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestAfghanistan92.452

    LowestJapan3.026

    Middle country: 27.013

031986 → 1987

Since 1986

What changed between 1986 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +3 / −0countries joined / left
  • 150values changed, of 150 in both
  • 5 · 145rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Afghanistan+ Guinea-Bissau+ Palestine

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 1987.

  • 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 153 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) (1987). Neonatal Mortality Rate, 1987 [data set], describing 1987. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/neonatal-mortality/1987

0656 held

Other years

07Questions

Neonatal Mortality Rate, 1987: questions and answers

Which country has the highest neonatal mortality rate in Neonatal Mortality Rate, 1987?

Afghanistan, at 81.036, of the 153 countries in the file.

What year does Neonatal Mortality Rate, 1987 describe?

1987.

How many countries does Neonatal Mortality Rate, 1987 cover?

153.

Where can I download Neonatal Mortality Rate, 1987?

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, 1987 the newest?

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

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