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Neonatal Mortality Rate, 1996

1996, as UN IGME’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Neonatal Mortality Rate, 1996 covers 200 countries on 3 measures. Afghanistan is highest, at 67.1214; Japan is lowest, at 2.0710. The middle country reads 17.6785. Against 1995, 200 values changed (21 up, 179 down), the same countries are covered.

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Neonatal Mortality Rate · Data for 1996

HighestAfghanistan

67.1214

LowestJapan

2.0710

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, 1996, 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, 1996: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
derived
1AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia67.121460.50073.915
2PakistanPAKSouthern Asia61.408257.74665.407
3South SudanSSDEastern Africa60.428643.71180.957
4Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa59.621851.45169.130
5MaliMLIWestern Africa58.366952.70864.540
6LiberiaLBRWestern Africa56.118248.87964.246
7GuineaGINWestern Africa55.562649.38562.680
8MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa53.518047.51560.329
9EthiopiaETHEastern Africa52.465647.34657.742
10BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia51.762849.06754.552
11Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa50.328344.45157.141
12RwandaRWAEastern Africa49.941245.10155.426
13NigeriaNGAWestern Africa49.398444.88054.444
14IndiaINDSouthern Asia49.117046.38551.987
15NigerNERWestern Africa48.934243.03655.593
16Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa48.039338.65859.473
17Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia47.322941.15554.630
18ChadTCDMiddle Africa47.309641.63553.720
19NepalNPLSouthern Asia46.364542.64950.228
20Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa46.288240.06853.823
21DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa45.002337.09154.779
22SomaliaSOMEastern Africa44.226532.21860.937
23AngolaAGOMiddle Africa44.098237.24853.678
24GambiaGMBWestern Africa44.047338.41650.179
25Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa43.678339.15748.555

02In 1996

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Afghanistan67.1214
  2. 2Pakistan61.4082
  3. 3South Sudan60.4286
  4. 4Guinea-Bissau59.6218
  5. 5Mali58.3669

Lowest

  1. 200Japan2.0710
  2. 199Singapore2.1135
  3. 198Sweden2.5647
  4. 197Iceland2.5669
  5. 196Finland2.9194

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 17.6785. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestAfghanistan60.500

    LowestAndorra1.708

    Middle country: 15.142

  • Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestSouth Sudan80.957

    LowestJapan2.141

    Middle country: 21.372

031995 → 1996

Since 1995

What changed between 1995 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 200values changed, of 200 in both
  • 21 · 179rose · 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 1996.

  • 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) (1996). Neonatal Mortality Rate, 1996 [data set], describing 1996. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/neonatal-mortality/1996

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Other years

07Questions

Neonatal Mortality Rate, 1996: questions and answers

Which country has the highest neonatal mortality rate in Neonatal Mortality Rate, 1996?

Afghanistan, at 67.1214, of the 200 countries in the file.

What year does Neonatal Mortality Rate, 1996 describe?

1996.

How many countries does Neonatal Mortality Rate, 1996 cover?

200.

Where can I download Neonatal Mortality Rate, 1996?

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, 1996 the newest?

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

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