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Neonatal Mortality Rate, 2022

2022, as UN IGME’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Neonatal Mortality Rate, 2022 covers 200 countries on 3 measures. South Sudan is highest, at 39.5578; San Marino is lowest, at 0.5861. The middle country reads 8.7361. Against 2021, 200 values changed (31 up, 169 down), the same countries are covered.

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Neonatal Mortality Rate · Data for 2022

HighestSouth Sudan

39.5578

LowestSan Marino

0.5861

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, 2022, 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, 2022: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
derived
1South SudanSSDEastern Africa39.557811.249109.4365
2NigeriaNGAWestern Africa39.333533.44246.3546
3PakistanPAKSouthern Asia37.920831.17645.9365
4Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa36.453027.77248.6229
5SomaliaSOMEastern Africa36.112416.34082.1720
6AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia34.720626.85144.7882
7NigerNERWestern Africa33.620125.28144.9008
8Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa33.456418.47957.7278
9LiberiaLBRWestern Africa33.239926.22741.5717
10ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa33.071825.38042.5387
11ChadTCDMiddle Africa31.501220.33347.8675
12GuineaGINWestern Africa30.817722.12542.5282
13DominicaDMACaribbean30.542226.49335.1907
14LesothoLSOSouthern Africa29.655521.79839.6257
15MaliMLIWestern Africa29.493024.43435.3353
16Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa29.356222.07738.4098
17Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa28.484222.57735.6471
18DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa28.392914.87853.1512
19BeninBENWestern Africa28.222121.19337.1425
20Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa27.373312.34954.6350
21EthiopiaETHEastern Africa26.865319.93135.9536
22EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa26.009016.98740.7663
23MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa25.953620.61732.8270
24CameroonCMRMiddle Africa25.744018.75235.1682
25Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa24.678214.69240.1005

02In 2022

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1South Sudan39.5578
  2. 2Nigeria39.3335
  3. 3Pakistan37.9208
  4. 4Central African Republic36.4530
  5. 5Somalia36.1124

Lowest

  1. 200San Marino0.5861
  2. 199Belarus0.8192
  3. 198Japan0.8317
  4. 197Montenegro0.9415
  5. 196Estonia1.0230

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 8.7361. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestNigeria33.442

    LowestSan Marino0.147

    Middle country: 5.878

  • Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestSouth Sudan109.4365

    LowestJapan0.8650

    Middle country: 11.3758

032021 → 2022

Since 2021

What changed between 2021 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 200values changed, of 200 in both
  • 31 · 169rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • India19.5286 → 18.4941−1.0346
  • Pakistan38.8843 → 37.9208−0.9635
  • Afghanistan35.6078 → 34.7206−0.8872
  • Mali30.3000 → 29.4930−0.8070
  • Senegal23.1796 → 22.4054−0.7742

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 2022.

  • 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) (2022). Neonatal Mortality Rate, 2022 [data set], describing 2022. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/neonatal-mortality/2022

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Other years

07Questions

Neonatal Mortality Rate, 2022: questions and answers

Which country has the highest neonatal mortality rate in Neonatal Mortality Rate, 2022?

South Sudan, at 39.5578, of the 200 countries in the file.

What year does Neonatal Mortality Rate, 2022 describe?

2022.

How many countries does Neonatal Mortality Rate, 2022 cover?

200.

Where can I download Neonatal Mortality Rate, 2022?

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, 2022 the newest?

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

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