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Neonatal Mortality Rate, 2005

2005, as UN IGME’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Neonatal Mortality Rate, 2005 covers 200 countries on 3 measures. Afghanistan is highest, at 55.391; Singapore is lowest, at 1.256. The middle country reads 13.116. Against 2004, 200 values changed (19 up, 181 down), the same countries are covered.

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Neonatal Mortality Rate · Data for 2005

HighestAfghanistan

55.391

LowestSingapore

1.256

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, 2005, 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, 2005: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
derived
1AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia55.39150.5710360.7559
2PakistanPAKSouthern Asia52.66849.3800356.0615
3Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa51.03543.4733860.0636
4South SudanSSDEastern Africa48.92336.1343166.5080
5SomaliaSOMEastern Africa45.74231.8708866.6860
6Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa44.46339.4113550.3578
7MaliMLIWestern Africa44.41039.9326749.0983
8EthiopiaETHEastern Africa43.21439.3396947.4659
9Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa41.79432.6239553.2733
10NigeriaNGAWestern Africa40.02136.2231644.0280
11LiberiaLBRWestern Africa39.94335.2351445.2491
12DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa39.92331.7025350.2126
13ChadTCDMiddle Africa39.48033.8296445.4830
14Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa39.44633.3220846.1376
15GuineaGINWestern Africa39.31734.6459144.2712
16LesothoLSOSouthern Africa38.70534.9507942.7056
17Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa38.18634.0739942.6389
18NigerNERWestern Africa37.51832.5868742.9017
19IndiaINDSouthern Asia37.35834.9899039.7460
20GambiaGMBWestern Africa36.73831.9199242.1415
21Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa35.47530.7005440.7283
22BeninBENWestern Africa35.02831.2165739.0521
23BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia34.90633.1514436.6104
24MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa33.99730.0980737.9162
25SudanSDNNorthern Africa33.33529.2809237.8634

02In 2005

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Afghanistan55.391
  2. 2Pakistan52.668
  3. 3Guinea-Bissau51.035
  4. 4South Sudan48.923
  5. 5Somalia45.742

Lowest

  1. 200Singapore1.256
  2. 199Japan1.414
  3. 198Iceland1.553
  4. 197San Marino1.595
  5. 196Luxembourg1.761

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 13.116. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestAfghanistan50.57103

    LowestSan Marino0.85014

    Middle country: 11.16257

  • Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestSomalia66.6860

    LowestSingapore1.3864

    Middle country: 15.0586

032004 → 2005

Since 2004

What changed between 2004 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 200values changed, of 200 in both
  • 19 · 181rose · 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 2005.

  • 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) (2005). Neonatal Mortality Rate, 2005 [data set], describing 2005. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/neonatal-mortality/2005

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Other years

07Questions

Neonatal Mortality Rate, 2005: questions and answers

Which country has the highest neonatal mortality rate in Neonatal Mortality Rate, 2005?

Afghanistan, at 55.391, of the 200 countries in the file.

What year does Neonatal Mortality Rate, 2005 describe?

2005.

How many countries does Neonatal Mortality Rate, 2005 cover?

200.

Where can I download Neonatal Mortality Rate, 2005?

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, 2005 the newest?

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

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