Neonatal Mortality Rate, 2008

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Neonatal Mortality Rate, 2008: 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	50.9109	46.4095	55.869
2	PakistanPAKSouthern Asia	50.7197	47.2311	54.426
3	Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa	47.7892	39.7785	57.501
4	SomaliaSOMEastern Africa	45.0221	29.6859	68.696
5	South SudanSSDEastern Africa	44.9181	29.8265	66.385
6	MaliMLIWestern Africa	41.2714	36.9632	45.945
7	Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa	41.2367	36.5342	46.545
8	EthiopiaETHEastern Africa	39.8976	36.2925	44.070
9	NigeriaNGAWestern Africa	38.3962	34.8028	42.223
10	ChadTCDMiddle Africa	38.1733	32.5748	44.258
11	DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa	38.1680	29.7641	49.151
12	LesothoLSOSouthern Africa	37.8084	33.6939	42.364
13	Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa	37.4021	27.9925	48.865
14	Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa	37.3006	31.0585	44.034
15	GuineaGINWestern Africa	36.9491	32.4452	41.956
16	Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa	36.5160	32.6003	40.900
17	LiberiaLBRWestern Africa	36.2538	31.5949	41.242
18	NigerNERWestern Africa	35.2431	30.5307	40.431
19	GambiaGMBWestern Africa	34.4021	29.7690	39.840
20	BeninBENWestern Africa	34.0349	30.2316	38.173
21	IndiaINDSouthern Asia	33.9755	31.8372	36.217
22	CameroonCMRMiddle Africa	32.2640	28.4922	36.414
23	Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa	32.2635	27.4051	37.791
24	SudanSDNNorthern Africa	31.5712	27.5193	36.247
25	BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia	31.0842	29.5970	32.629

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 12.0590. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

• Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

  HighestPakistan47.2311

  LowestSan Marino0.5779

  Middle country: 10.0093

• Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

  HighestSomalia68.696

  LowestJapan1.278

  Middle country: 13.782

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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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