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Neonatal Mortality Rate, 1991

1991, as UN IGME’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Neonatal Mortality Rate, 1991 covers 200 countries on 3 measures. Afghanistan is highest, at 74.244; Japan is lowest, at 2.472. The middle country reads 19.844. Against 1990, 200 values changed (20 up, 180 down), the same countries are covered.

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Neonatal Mortality Rate · Data for 1991

HighestAfghanistan

74.244

LowestJapan

2.472

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, 1991, 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, 1991: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
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1AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia74.24466.26283.2122
2MaliMLIWestern Africa65.78559.34172.9095
3PakistanPAKSouthern Asia64.75260.77069.2018
4South SudanSSDEastern Africa63.67543.71385.9966
5BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia63.40259.91567.0215
6Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa63.30154.40473.8893
7GuineaGINWestern Africa60.37653.55367.9389
8LiberiaLBRWestern Africa60.24251.33570.0320
9MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa59.34652.31567.3361
10EthiopiaETHEastern Africa58.56452.79064.7068
11Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia57.30049.27267.5231
12NepalNPLSouthern Asia55.78351.30460.7664
13IndiaINDSouthern Asia55.63252.53158.9079
14NigerNERWestern Africa54.36247.59561.8735
15Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa51.79845.26859.5845
16ChadTCDMiddle Africa50.62744.46457.4817
17Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa50.17843.25658.7509
18NigeriaNGAWestern Africa49.63944.60355.0430
19Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa49.61638.60663.9796
20GambiaGMBWestern Africa48.66040.56056.9982
21MalawiMWIEastern Africa48.61343.64853.9756
22SomaliaSOMEastern Africa48.17537.16063.2331
23DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa47.52938.78657.4871
24Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa47.06142.33452.2336
25ComorosCOMEastern Africa46.59138.31155.1368

02In 1991

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Afghanistan74.244
  2. 2Mali65.785
  3. 3Pakistan64.752
  4. 4South Sudan63.675
  5. 5Bangladesh63.402

Lowest

  1. 200Japan2.472
  2. 199Iceland3.303
  3. 198Sweden3.353
  4. 197France3.396
  5. 196Germany3.452

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 19.844. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestAfghanistan66.262

    LowestAndorra1.564

    Middle country: 16.341

  • Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestSouth Sudan85.9966

    LowestJapan2.5532

    Middle country: 24.3627

031990 → 1991

Since 1990

What changed between 1990 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 200values changed, of 200 in both
  • 20 · 180rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

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 1991.

  • 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) (1991). Neonatal Mortality Rate, 1991 [data set], describing 1991. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/neonatal-mortality/1991

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Other years

07Questions

Neonatal Mortality Rate, 1991: questions and answers

Which country has the highest neonatal mortality rate in Neonatal Mortality Rate, 1991?

Afghanistan, at 74.244, of the 200 countries in the file.

What year does Neonatal Mortality Rate, 1991 describe?

1991.

How many countries does Neonatal Mortality Rate, 1991 cover?

200.

Where can I download Neonatal Mortality Rate, 1991?

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, 1991 the newest?

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

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