Neonatal Mortality Rate, 2020

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Neonatal Mortality Rate, 2020: 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	39.9144	33.964	46.429
2	South SudanSSDEastern Africa	39.5013	13.120	98.694
3	NigeriaNGAWestern Africa	39.1644	34.351	44.833
4	SomaliaSOMEastern Africa	36.7334	17.180	79.854
5	AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia	36.4845	29.401	44.835
6	Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa	34.9331	20.748	56.767
7	NigerNERWestern Africa	34.1769	26.975	43.604
8	LiberiaLBRWestern Africa	33.4461	27.479	40.435
9	ChadTCDMiddle Africa	32.6586	22.381	46.428
10	Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa	32.4057	24.229	43.037
11	GuineaGINWestern Africa	31.8022	24.139	41.243
12	ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa	31.2768	25.874	37.859
13	MaliMLIWestern Africa	31.1720	26.667	36.250
14	LesothoLSOSouthern Africa	30.8098	24.411	38.433
15	Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa	30.4572	24.016	38.067
16	DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa	29.7789	16.544	52.468
17	DominicaDMACaribbean	29.5725	26.132	33.543
18	Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa	29.4967	24.254	35.579
19	BeninBENWestern Africa	29.2063	23.196	36.378
20	Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa	28.5684	13.657	53.409
21	EthiopiaETHEastern Africa	27.9426	21.943	35.509
22	CameroonCMRMiddle Africa	26.8246	20.804	34.553
23	EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa	26.7659	18.600	39.879
24	MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa	26.4988	22.074	32.112
25	Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa	25.6095	16.202	39.379

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 9.2387. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

• Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

  HighestNigeria34.351

  LowestSan Marino0.176

  Middle country: 6.471

• Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

  HighestSouth Sudan98.694

  LowestJapan0.871

  Middle country: 11.471

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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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