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Stillbirth Rate, 2015

2015, as UN IGME’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Stillbirth Rate, 2015 covers 200 countries on 3 measures. Somalia is highest, at 35.7779; Monaco is lowest, at 1.4817. The middle country reads 9.0541. Against 2014, 200 values changed (31 up, 169 down), the same countries are covered.

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Stillbirth Rate · Data for 2015

HighestSomalia

35.7779

LowestMonaco

1.4817

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, 2015, 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, 2015: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
derived
1SomaliaSOMEastern Africa35.777920.830560.4720
2EthiopiaETHEastern Africa34.218125.868345.2034
3PakistanPAKSouthern Asia33.604229.494538.3778
4Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa33.549923.490347.8847
5Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa33.541120.187654.8529
6DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa32.225227.330037.9860
7ChadTCDMiddle Africa30.734018.569250.9041
8AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia29.090117.646148.4335
9South SudanSSDEastern Africa28.672017.201947.5780
10DR CongoCODMiddle Africa28.303823.688633.8346
11BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia27.037123.474031.1824
12NigeriaNGAWestern Africa26.866516.533743.7347
13MaliMLIWestern Africa26.377217.634739.3125
14LiberiaLBRWestern Africa25.662515.588242.4639
15LesothoLSOSouthern Africa25.661719.773333.7423
16BurundiBDIEastern Africa25.605121.951129.8176
17Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa24.210918.365131.5273
18GuineaGINWestern Africa24.187215.265139.3755
19SudanSDNNorthern Africa23.188116.580932.3528
20GhanaGHAWestern Africa22.887018.811627.8593
21ComorosCOMEastern Africa22.693013.997036.4562
22Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa22.453113.898136.7733
23YemenYEMWestern Asia22.433717.019629.9073
24TogoTGOWestern Africa22.308017.250028.8905
25NigerNERWestern Africa21.819115.363631.0004

02In 2015

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Somalia35.7779
  2. 2Ethiopia34.2181
  3. 3Pakistan33.6042
  4. 4Guinea-Bissau33.5499
  5. 5Central African Republic33.5411

Lowest

  1. 200Monaco1.4817
  2. 199Japan1.7930
  3. 198South Korea1.8997
  4. 197Iceland2.0142
  5. 196Finland2.0257

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 9.0541. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestPakistan29.4945

    LowestMonaco0.8677

    Middle country: 6.5859

  • Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestSomalia60.4720

    LowestJapan1.8677

    Middle country: 12.8920

032014 → 2015

Since 2014

What changed between 2014 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

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 2015.

  • 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) (2015). Stillbirth Rate, 2015 [data set], describing 2015. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/stillbirth-rate/2015

0624 held

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07Questions

Stillbirth Rate, 2015: questions and answers

Which country has the highest stillbirth rate in Stillbirth Rate, 2015?

Somalia, at 35.7779, of the 200 countries in the file.

What year does Stillbirth Rate, 2015 describe?

2015.

How many countries does Stillbirth Rate, 2015 cover?

200.

Where can I download Stillbirth Rate, 2015?

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, 2015 the newest?

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

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