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Stillbirth Rate, 2023

2023, as UN IGME’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Stillbirth Rate, 2023 covers 200 countries on 3 measures. Somalia is highest, at 34.8992; Monaco is lowest, at 1.1799. The middle country reads 8.1635. Against 2022, 200 values changed (23 up, 177 down), the same countries are covered.

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Stillbirth Rate · Data for 2023

HighestSomalia

34.8992

LowestMonaco

1.1799

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, 2023, 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, 2023: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
derived
1SomaliaSOMEastern Africa34.899219.584961.882
2Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa32.296218.372355.819
3DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa29.749725.855334.233
4EthiopiaETHEastern Africa29.709724.089336.720
5Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa29.135818.769045.719
6ChadTCDMiddle Africa28.441616.737549.148
7AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia28.021915.885449.070
8South SudanSSDEastern Africa27.647215.797149.389
9PakistanPAKSouthern Asia27.554822.239734.200
10DR CongoCODMiddle Africa25.864520.689532.210
11LiberiaLBRWestern Africa24.156414.080142.308
12NigeriaNGAWestern Africa23.883614.343540.145
13MaliMLIWestern Africa22.744615.337633.584
14GuineaGINWestern Africa22.723713.541438.009
15LesothoLSOSouthern Africa22.666516.111431.841
16Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa22.622615.965931.533
17SudanSDNNorthern Africa21.508014.014433.085
18NigerNERWestern Africa21.441813.605533.335
19ComorosCOMEastern Africa20.963812.325435.950
20YemenYEMWestern Asia20.797914.049331.061
21BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia20.369516.451525.076
22Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa20.210411.788635.343
23AngolaAGOMiddle Africa19.857911.334234.572
24TogoTGOWestern Africa19.620017.487122.075
25ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa19.404016.585922.584

02In 2023

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Somalia34.8992
  2. 2Central African Republic32.2962
  3. 3Djibouti29.7497
  4. 4Ethiopia29.7097
  5. 5Guinea-Bissau29.1358

Lowest

  1. 200Monaco1.1799
  2. 199Japan1.6552
  3. 198South Korea1.6876
  4. 197Singapore1.8195
  5. 196Estonia1.8736

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 8.1635. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestDjibouti25.8553

    LowestMonaco0.6602

    Middle country: 5.3797

  • Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestSomalia61.882

    LowestJapan1.750

    Middle country: 12.098

032022 → 2023

Since 2022

What changed between 2022 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 200values changed, of 200 in both
  • 23 · 177rose · 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 2023.

  • 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) (2023). Stillbirth Rate, 2023 [data set], describing 2023. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/stillbirth-rate/2023

0624 held

Other years

07Questions

Stillbirth Rate, 2023: questions and answers

Which country has the highest stillbirth rate in Stillbirth Rate, 2023?

Somalia, at 34.8992, of the 200 countries in the file.

What year does Stillbirth Rate, 2023 describe?

2023.

How many countries does Stillbirth Rate, 2023 cover?

200.

Where can I download Stillbirth Rate, 2023?

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, 2023 the newest?

Yes, as of 2026-09-29, when it was read from the publisher.

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