Neonatal Mortality Rate, 2018

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Neonatal Mortality Rate, 2018: 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	PakistanPAKSouthern Asia	41.809	36.823	47.3088
2	South SudanSSDEastern Africa	40.007	15.851	87.8948
3	NigeriaNGAWestern Africa	38.737	34.565	43.6638
4	AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia	38.376	32.115	45.1980
5	SomaliaSOMEastern Africa	38.309	18.940	79.2547
6	Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa	36.494	23.115	56.2271
7	NigerNERWestern Africa	34.345	28.139	42.2850
8	ChadTCDMiddle Africa	33.839	24.478	45.3392
9	LiberiaLBRWestern Africa	33.683	28.418	39.9383
10	Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa	33.083	25.455	42.4758
11	MaliMLIWestern Africa	32.845	28.760	37.5263
12	GuineaGINWestern Africa	32.552	25.913	40.3852
13	LesothoLSOSouthern Africa	32.088	26.957	38.1106
14	Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa	31.764	25.830	38.3154
15	DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa	31.137	18.371	51.6319
16	Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa	30.554	25.980	35.7444
17	BeninBENWestern Africa	30.222	24.866	35.9157
18	Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa	29.844	15.193	52.6402
19	EthiopiaETHEastern Africa	29.546	24.461	35.7284
20	ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa	29.418	25.038	34.8581
21	DominicaDMACaribbean	28.268	25.442	31.5796
22	CameroonCMRMiddle Africa	27.826	22.754	34.1924
23	EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa	27.057	19.921	37.6323
24	MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa	26.675	22.945	31.3089
25	GambiaGMBWestern Africa	26.664	21.502	32.7345

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 9.596. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

• Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

  HighestPakistan36.823

  LowestSan Marino0.208

  Middle country: 7.451

• Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

  HighestSouth Sudan87.8948

  LowestJapan0.8954

  Middle country: 12.0634

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