Neonatal Mortality Rate, 2003

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Neonatal Mortality Rate, 2003: 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	58.239	53.136	64.012
2	PakistanPAKSouthern Asia	54.194	50.937	57.608
3	Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa	52.586	44.787	61.038
4	South SudanSSDEastern Africa	51.558	38.395	69.569
5	MaliMLIWestern Africa	46.931	42.242	51.842
6	Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa	45.891	40.786	51.981
7	SomaliaSOMEastern Africa	45.699	32.982	63.738
8	EthiopiaETHEastern Africa	45.112	40.960	49.572
9	Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa	44.083	35.219	55.969
10	LiberiaLBRWestern Africa	43.365	38.143	49.121
11	NigeriaNGAWestern Africa	42.059	38.102	46.253
12	GuineaGINWestern Africa	41.346	36.651	46.524
13	DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa	41.016	32.700	50.770
14	ChadTCDMiddle Africa	40.905	35.349	46.828
15	Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa	40.831	34.657	47.602
16	IndiaINDSouthern Asia	39.831	37.356	42.296
17	NigerNERWestern Africa	39.781	34.432	45.446
18	Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa	39.228	34.950	43.826
19	LesothoLSOSouthern Africa	38.317	34.638	42.153
20	GambiaGMBWestern Africa	38.127	33.001	43.495
21	BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia	37.848	35.970	39.702
22	Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa	37.652	32.893	43.031
23	MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa	37.399	33.296	41.708
24	BeninBENWestern Africa	36.037	32.122	40.107
25	AngolaAGOMiddle Africa	35.871	29.612	43.064

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 14.017. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

• Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

  HighestAfghanistan53.136

  LowestSan Marino1.111

  Middle country: 11.824

• Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

  HighestSouth Sudan69.569

  LowestSingapore1.473

  Middle country: 16.295

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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.

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