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Neonatal Mortality Rate, 2004

2004, as UN IGME’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Neonatal Mortality Rate, 2004 covers 200 countries on 3 measures. Afghanistan is highest, at 56.8315; Singapore is lowest, at 1.2902. The middle country reads 13.6170. Against 2003, 200 values changed (22 up, 178 down), the same countries are covered.

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Neonatal Mortality Rate · Data for 2004

HighestAfghanistan

56.8315

LowestSingapore

1.2902

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, 2004, 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, 2004: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
derived
1AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia56.831551.9038462.3425
2PakistanPAKSouthern Asia53.410050.1524656.7310
3Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa51.828844.2805260.4414
4South SudanSSDEastern Africa50.289437.3098668.0189
5SomaliaSOMEastern Africa45.780732.4189765.0584
6MaliMLIWestern Africa45.584341.0138750.3656
7Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa45.228340.1162051.2335
8EthiopiaETHEastern Africa44.174940.2234748.5100
9Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa43.048734.1406854.5977
10LiberiaLBRWestern Africa41.566436.5463847.1018
11NigeriaNGAWestern Africa40.941836.9820445.0662
12DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa40.472832.2103250.5107
13GuineaGINWestern Africa40.303235.6392045.3739
14ChadTCDMiddle Africa40.185034.5115846.1750
15Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa40.131933.9737346.9442
16Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa38.690734.5521643.2188
17LesothoLSOSouthern Africa38.584834.8247042.4941
18IndiaINDSouthern Asia38.553636.1052840.9890
19NigerNERWestern Africa38.553233.4562344.0430
20GambiaGMBWestern Africa37.466732.4528742.8534
21Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa36.596331.8344341.9334
22BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia36.319534.5000538.1194
23MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa35.584131.5987839.6798
24BeninBENWestern Africa35.493531.5866539.5236
25AngolaAGOMiddle Africa34.535628.4882241.3570

02In 2004

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Afghanistan56.8315
  2. 2Pakistan53.4100
  3. 3Guinea-Bissau51.8288
  4. 4South Sudan50.2894
  5. 5Somalia45.7807

Lowest

  1. 200Singapore1.2902
  2. 199Japan1.5048
  3. 198Iceland1.6276
  4. 197San Marino1.7384
  5. 196Luxembourg1.8657

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 13.6170. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

032003 → 2004

Since 2003

What changed between 2003 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 200values changed, of 200 in both
  • 22 · 178rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

  • Botswana13.9747 → 16.5590+2.5843
  • Zimbabwe23.6809 → 24.3679+0.6870
  • Dominica14.0602 → 14.6428+0.5826
  • Fiji10.9822 → 11.4672+0.4850
  • Niue19.0440 → 19.4628+0.4188

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 2004.

  • 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) (2004). Neonatal Mortality Rate, 2004 [data set], describing 2004. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/neonatal-mortality/2004

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07Questions

Neonatal Mortality Rate, 2004: questions and answers

Which country has the highest neonatal mortality rate in Neonatal Mortality Rate, 2004?

Afghanistan, at 56.8315, of the 200 countries in the file.

What year does Neonatal Mortality Rate, 2004 describe?

2004.

How many countries does Neonatal Mortality Rate, 2004 cover?

200.

Where can I download Neonatal Mortality Rate, 2004?

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, 2004 the newest?

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

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