Neonatal Mortality Rate, 1998

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Neonatal Mortality Rate, 1998: 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	64.6912	58.487	71.1041
2	South SudanSSDEastern Africa	61.6871	45.784	81.6605
3	PakistanPAKSouthern Asia	59.3063	55.731	63.0866
4	Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa	57.5430	49.349	66.6039
5	MaliMLIWestern Africa	54.9823	49.779	60.6317
6	LiberiaLBRWestern Africa	53.2212	46.684	60.7576
7	GuineaGINWestern Africa	51.0626	45.591	57.4332
8	EthiopiaETHEastern Africa	50.1332	45.231	55.3012
9	MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa	49.4458	44.064	55.5071
10	Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa	49.2475	43.483	55.8764
11	NigeriaNGAWestern Africa	48.2608	43.873	53.0130
12	RwandaRWAEastern Africa	47.9659	43.165	53.0466
13	BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia	47.4987	45.094	50.0490
14	Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa	47.1553	37.789	58.7777
15	NigerNERWestern Africa	46.6867	41.087	53.0293
16	IndiaINDSouthern Asia	46.5347	43.862	49.2562
17	ChadTCDMiddle Africa	45.6758	40.169	51.9824
18	Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa	44.4680	38.460	51.5859
19	SomaliaSOMEastern Africa	44.2863	32.165	61.0406
20	DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa	43.7696	35.648	53.6609
21	Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia	43.7273	37.872	50.4557
22	NepalNPLSouthern Asia	42.8892	39.493	46.4886
23	GambiaGMBWestern Africa	42.0310	36.414	47.9793
24	Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa	41.9550	37.520	46.8393
25	AngolaAGOMiddle Africa	41.6627	34.969	49.5864

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 16.5815. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

• Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

  HighestAfghanistan58.487

  LowestAndorra1.690

  Middle country: 14.176

• Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

  HighestSouth Sudan81.6605

  LowestJapan1.9619

  Middle country: 19.6583

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