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Stillbirth Rate, 2002

2002, as UN IGME’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Stillbirth Rate, 2002 covers 200 countries on 3 measures. Guinea-Bissau is highest, at 48.691; Japan is lowest, at 2.445. The middle country reads 12.207. Against 2001, 200 values changed (15 up, 185 down), the same countries are covered.

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Stillbirth Rate · Data for 2002

HighestGuinea-Bissau

48.691

LowestJapan

2.445

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 Stillbirth Rate, 2002, 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

Stillbirth Rate, 2002: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
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1Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa48.69134.259669.0724
2EthiopiaETHEastern Africa44.37727.875269.6390
3SomaliaSOMEastern Africa41.69223.253874.0210
4AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia40.41722.759271.3457
5PakistanPAKSouthern Asia40.41631.698151.4838
6ChadTCDMiddle Africa40.37423.494168.7187
7DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa39.69529.015553.9775
8BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia38.27532.056345.5218
9Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa38.24322.010965.6702
10South SudanSSDEastern Africa37.82221.118266.5332
11DR CongoCODMiddle Africa37.77425.772055.5571
12LesothoLSOSouthern Africa35.42327.030446.2117
13LiberiaLBRWestern Africa34.82820.530658.4104
14MaliMLIWestern Africa33.97521.377854.0702
15Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa32.91019.427955.8590
16BurundiBDIEastern Africa32.70223.148146.4904
17Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa32.14323.385344.1773
18NepalNPLSouthern Asia29.95223.904837.4409
19NigeriaNGAWestern Africa29.26317.370149.7539
20CambodiaKHMSouth-eastern Asia28.60918.319145.2881
21GhanaGHAWestern Africa28.52222.055036.9283
22IndiaINDSouthern Asia28.44523.018535.2135
23NigerNERWestern Africa28.40119.395342.0484
24ComorosCOMEastern Africa28.14116.599847.3038
25BeninBENWestern Africa27.73720.369737.9196

02In 2002

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Guinea-Bissau48.691
  2. 2Ethiopia44.377
  3. 3Somalia41.692
  4. 4Afghanistan40.417
  5. 5Pakistan40.416

Lowest

  1. 200Japan2.445
  2. 199Finland2.481
  3. 198Iceland2.538
  4. 197Italy2.619
  5. 196Switzerland2.740

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 12.207. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestGuinea-Bissau34.2596

    LowestMonaco1.6459

    Middle country: 8.4170

  • Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestSomalia74.0210

    LowestJapan2.5415

    Middle country: 17.7207

032001 → 2002

Since 2001

What changed between 2001 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 200values changed, of 200 in both
  • 15 · 185rose · 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 2002.

  • 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) (2002). Stillbirth Rate, 2002 [data set], describing 2002. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/stillbirth-rate/2002

0624 held

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07Questions

Stillbirth Rate, 2002: questions and answers

Which country has the highest stillbirth rate in Stillbirth Rate, 2002?

Guinea-Bissau, at 48.691, of the 200 countries in the file.

What year does Stillbirth Rate, 2002 describe?

2002.

How many countries does Stillbirth Rate, 2002 cover?

200.

Where can I download Stillbirth Rate, 2002?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Stillbirth Rate, 2002 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Stillbirth Rate, 2023.

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