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Stillbirth Rate, 2017

2017, as UN IGME’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Stillbirth Rate, 2017 covers 200 countries on 3 measures. Somalia is highest, at 35.3125; Monaco is lowest, at 1.3514. The middle country reads 8.7932. Against 2016, 200 values changed (35 up, 165 down), the same countries are covered.

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Stillbirth Rate · Data for 2017

HighestSomalia

35.3125

LowestMonaco

1.3514

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, 2017, 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, 2017: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
derived
1SomaliaSOMEastern Africa35.312520.49319459.970
2Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa34.038520.29392156.196
3Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa31.952022.11477047.322
4PakistanPAKSouthern Asia31.925027.49336736.964
5EthiopiaETHEastern Africa31.119524.55759739.147
6DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa30.775525.86201436.509
7ChadTCDMiddle Africa29.360817.79262848.847
8South SudanSSDEastern Africa28.491016.93356147.797
9AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia28.014416.90337346.765
10DR CongoCODMiddle Africa27.589823.30328632.804
11NigeriaNGAWestern Africa26.381416.25830843.037
12BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia25.453721.84512729.652
13LiberiaLBRWestern Africa25.404515.44484042.624
14MaliMLIWestern Africa25.193417.05705437.434
15BurundiBDIEastern Africa25.186322.63178728.050
16LesothoLSOSouthern Africa24.585918.70499532.488
17Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa23.939518.32700930.711
18GuineaGINWestern Africa23.817014.92876638.425
19YemenYEMWestern Asia22.478716.69481030.389
20SudanSDNNorthern Africa22.467715.70490032.051
21ComorosCOMEastern Africa22.175313.49031836.265
22NigerNERWestern Africa21.853315.05074031.784
23Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa21.769413.48248535.601
24GhanaGHAWestern Africa21.710217.53883426.772
25TogoTGOWestern Africa21.443417.16388626.860

02In 2017

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Somalia35.3125
  2. 2Central African Republic34.0385
  3. 3Guinea-Bissau31.9520
  4. 4Pakistan31.9250
  5. 5Ethiopia31.1195

Lowest

  1. 200Monaco1.3514
  2. 199Japan1.6732
  3. 198South Korea1.7276
  4. 197Finland2.0190
  5. 196Iceland2.0331

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 8.7932. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestPakistan27.493367

    LowestMonaco0.777412

    Middle country: 6.212748

  • Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestSomalia59.970

    LowestJapan1.745

    Middle country: 12.746

032016 → 2017

Since 2016

What changed between 2016 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 200values changed, of 200 in both
  • 35 · 165rose · 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 2017.

  • 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) (2017). Stillbirth Rate, 2017 [data set], describing 2017. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/stillbirth-rate/2017

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07Questions

Stillbirth Rate, 2017: questions and answers

Which country has the highest stillbirth rate in Stillbirth Rate, 2017?

Somalia, at 35.3125, of the 200 countries in the file.

What year does Stillbirth Rate, 2017 describe?

2017.

How many countries does Stillbirth Rate, 2017 cover?

200.

Where can I download Stillbirth Rate, 2017?

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, 2017 the newest?

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

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