Neonatal Mortality Rate, 1997

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Neonatal Mortality Rate, 1997: 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	AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia	65.905	59.493	72.4788
2	PakistanPAKSouthern Asia	60.376	56.796	64.2583
3	South SudanSSDEastern Africa	59.585	42.937	80.4016
4	Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa	58.647	50.511	67.7873
5	MaliMLIWestern Africa	56.653	51.213	62.5534
6	LiberiaLBRWestern Africa	54.861	48.005	62.6346
7	GuineaGINWestern Africa	53.564	47.719	60.3626
8	MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa	51.681	45.914	58.1906
9	EthiopiaETHEastern Africa	51.244	46.264	56.5291
10	Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa	49.787	43.919	56.7295
11	BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia	49.595	47.027	52.3038
12	RwandaRWAEastern Africa	49.414	44.538	54.6917
13	NigeriaNGAWestern Africa	48.972	44.526	53.8399
14	NigerNERWestern Africa	47.846	42.098	54.3256
15	IndiaINDSouthern Asia	47.842	45.095	50.6359
16	Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa	47.538	38.336	59.2680
17	ChadTCDMiddle Africa	46.607	40.918	53.0652
18	Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa	45.380	39.324	52.6865
19	Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia	45.337	39.364	52.4084
20	NepalNPLSouthern Asia	44.609	41.055	48.3458
21	DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa	44.410	36.317	54.2627
22	SomaliaSOMEastern Africa	44.162	32.089	60.8469
23	GambiaGMBWestern Africa	43.040	37.408	49.1679
24	AngolaAGOMiddle Africa	43.015	36.401	51.7090
25	MalawiMWIEastern Africa	42.800	38.718	46.9787

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 16.987. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

• Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

  HighestAfghanistan59.493

  LowestAndorra1.731

  Middle country: 14.742

• Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

  HighestSouth Sudan80.4016

  LowestJapan2.0487

  Middle country: 20.6681

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