Neonatal Mortality Rate, 2024

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Neonatal Mortality Rate, 2024: 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	South SudanSSDEastern Africa	39.46577	9.4367	124.292
2	NigeriaNGAWestern Africa	39.04572	31.9122	48.081
3	PakistanPAKSouthern Asia	36.09850	28.1279	45.900
4	SomaliaSOMEastern Africa	34.24304	14.3932	81.862
5	ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa	33.68028	22.5175	49.701
6	AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia	33.13673	24.5195	44.864
7	LiberiaLBRWestern Africa	32.93693	24.2255	43.805
8	NigerNERWestern Africa	32.75072	23.3316	46.492
9	Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa	31.98101	16.7362	58.810
10	DominicaDMACaribbean	31.06531	26.5016	36.376
11	ChadTCDMiddle Africa	30.38784	18.5026	49.037
12	Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa	29.93299	20.3830	44.018
13	GuineaGINWestern Africa	29.79885	20.0079	43.811
14	LesothoLSOSouthern Africa	28.49093	19.3882	41.084
15	Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa	28.26060	19.9970	39.150
16	MaliMLIWestern Africa	27.99332	22.3212	34.710
17	Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa	27.40022	20.6708	35.896
18	BeninBENWestern Africa	27.18293	19.2479	38.092
19	DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa	27.07104	13.4910	53.696
20	Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa	26.28644	11.3589	55.655
21	EthiopiaETHEastern Africa	25.23151	17.4916	36.307
22	MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa	25.08004	18.9404	33.377
23	EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa	25.00472	15.3609	41.328
24	CameroonCMRMiddle Africa	24.76163	17.0023	35.789
25	Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa	23.75264	13.3586	41.007

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 8.13406. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

• Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

  HighestNigeria31.9122

  LowestSan Marino0.1231

  Middle country: 5.0304

• Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

  HighestSouth Sudan124.292

  LowestJapan0.915

  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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