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Neonatal Mortality Rate, 1989

1989, as UN IGME’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Neonatal Mortality Rate, 1989 covers 200 countries on 3 measures. Afghanistan is highest, at 77.265; Japan is lowest, at 2.639. The middle country reads 21.145. Against 1988, 155 values changed (10 up, 145 down), 45 countries joined.

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Neonatal Mortality Rate · Data for 1989

HighestAfghanistan

77.265

LowestJapan

2.639

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, 1989, 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 200 countries · select a heading to sort

Neonatal Mortality Rate, 1989: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
derived
1AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia77.26568.43787.490
2MaliMLIWestern Africa68.87762.20576.448
3BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia67.91464.11471.906
4PakistanPAKSouthern Asia65.40760.99169.926
5South SudanSSDEastern Africa64.68742.51389.165
6Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa64.46354.22075.971
7GuineaGINWestern Africa63.19255.88671.371
8LiberiaLBRWestern Africa61.95753.09971.773
9MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa61.23754.06769.713
10EthiopiaETHEastern Africa60.54454.45667.080
11Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia60.00950.96971.097
12NepalNPLSouthern Asia59.83854.83965.211
13IndiaINDSouthern Asia58.38055.09261.849
14NigerNERWestern Africa56.17849.35463.974
15ChadTCDMiddle Africa52.70446.33860.002
16Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa52.21545.01060.989
17Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa51.50344.19160.629
18ComorosCOMEastern Africa51.05542.40460.364
19MalawiMWIEastern Africa50.94545.54056.621
20GambiaGMBWestern Africa50.40341.08660.643
21Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa50.05137.96166.456
22NigeriaNGAWestern Africa49.37344.06254.971
23LaosLAOSouth-eastern Asia48.62342.43355.801
24DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa48.44939.48359.016
25Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa48.31143.48953.712

02In 1989

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Afghanistan77.265
  2. 2Mali68.877
  3. 3Bangladesh67.914
  4. 4Pakistan65.407
  5. 5South Sudan64.687

Lowest

  1. 200Japan2.639
  2. 199Germany3.265
  3. 198Iceland3.610
  4. 197Sweden3.633
  5. 196France3.823

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 21.145. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestAfghanistan68.437

    LowestAndorra1.463

    Middle country: 17.393

  • Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestSouth Sudan89.165

    LowestJapan2.723

    Middle country: 25.535

031988 → 1989

Since 1988

What changed between 1988 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +45 / −0countries joined / left
  • 155values changed, of 155 in both
  • 10 · 145rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Angola+ Anguilla+ Andorra+ Belarus+ Brunei+ Bhutan+ China+ Cook Islands+ Cyprus+ Fiji+ Micronesia+ Gambia+ Equatorial Guinea+ Grenada+ Iran+ Kiribati+ Monaco+ Marshall Islands+ Myanmar+ Montenegro+ Montserrat+ Niue+ Nauru+ Palau+ North Korea+ Qatar+ Romania+ Russia+ Saudi Arabia+ Solomon Islands+ Sierra Leone+ San Marino+ Serbia+ South Sudan+ Suriname+ Turks and Caicos Islands+ Tajikistan+ Tonga+ Tuvalu+ Uzbekistan+ Venezuela+ British Virgin Islands+ Vanuatu+ Samoa+ Kosovo

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 1989.

  • 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 200 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) (1989). Neonatal Mortality Rate, 1989 [data set], describing 1989. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/neonatal-mortality/1989

0656 held

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07Questions

Neonatal Mortality Rate, 1989: questions and answers

Which country has the highest neonatal mortality rate in Neonatal Mortality Rate, 1989?

Afghanistan, at 77.265, of the 200 countries in the file.

What year does Neonatal Mortality Rate, 1989 describe?

1989.

How many countries does Neonatal Mortality Rate, 1989 cover?

200.

Where can I download Neonatal Mortality Rate, 1989?

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, 1989 the newest?

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

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