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Neonatal Mortality Rate, 2021

2021, as UN IGME’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Neonatal Mortality Rate, 2021 covers 200 countries on 3 measures. South Sudan is highest, at 39.482; San Marino is lowest, at 0.614. The middle country reads 8.992. Against 2020, 200 values changed (28 up, 172 down), the same countries are covered.

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Neonatal Mortality Rate · Data for 2021

HighestSouth Sudan

39.482

LowestSan Marino

0.614

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, 2021, 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, 2021: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
derived
1South SudanSSDEastern Africa39.48212.21257103.2910
2NigeriaNGAWestern Africa39.28433.9772745.5589
3PakistanPAKSouthern Asia38.88432.6249646.0306
4SomaliaSOMEastern Africa36.15416.3933280.4211
5AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia35.60828.0822044.8728
6Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa34.15219.5244257.3865
7NigerNERWestern Africa33.93326.1927944.2878
8LiberiaLBRWestern Africa33.37626.9291740.8759
9Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa32.87124.4192744.2540
10ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa32.24526.0632639.7315
11ChadTCDMiddle Africa32.05621.4087347.1054
12GuineaGINWestern Africa31.34323.1697341.9230
13MaliMLIWestern Africa30.30025.5109135.7790
14LesothoLSOSouthern Africa30.21723.0917239.0750
15DominicaDMACaribbean30.10626.3620034.4291
16Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa29.86023.0866838.1536
17DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa29.05815.6698152.9497
18Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa28.97623.4156435.5533
19BeninBENWestern Africa28.69222.2056436.6176
20Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa28.04113.0044154.1015
21EthiopiaETHEastern Africa27.55221.0518135.8403
22EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa26.37217.8165440.4482
23CameroonCMRMiddle Africa26.28519.7740934.8296
24MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa26.26821.4114232.5224
25Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa25.12815.4945939.5565

02In 2021

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1South Sudan39.482
  2. 2Nigeria39.284
  3. 3Pakistan38.884
  4. 4Somalia36.154
  5. 5Afghanistan35.608

Lowest

  1. 200San Marino0.614
  2. 199Japan0.830
  3. 198Belarus0.875
  4. 197Singapore1.005
  5. 196Montenegro1.025

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 8.992. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestNigeria33.97727

    LowestSan Marino0.15997

    Middle country: 6.21360

  • Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestSouth Sudan103.2910

    LowestJapan0.8639

    Middle country: 11.3504

032020 → 2021

Since 2020

What changed between 2020 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 200values changed, of 200 in both
  • 28 · 172rose · 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 2021.

  • 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) (2021). Neonatal Mortality Rate, 2021 [data set], describing 2021. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/neonatal-mortality/2021

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Other years

07Questions

Neonatal Mortality Rate, 2021: questions and answers

Which country has the highest neonatal mortality rate in Neonatal Mortality Rate, 2021?

South Sudan, at 39.482, of the 200 countries in the file.

What year does Neonatal Mortality Rate, 2021 describe?

2021.

How many countries does Neonatal Mortality Rate, 2021 cover?

200.

Where can I download Neonatal Mortality Rate, 2021?

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, 2021 the newest?

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

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