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Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1977

1977, as UN IGME’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1977 covers 177 countries on 3 measures. Cambodia is highest, at 543.024; Sweden is lowest, at 9.406. The middle country reads 74.344. Against 1976, 176 values changed (7 up, 169 down), 1 country joined.

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Under-Five Mortality Rate · Data for 1977

HighestCambodia

543.024

LowestSweden

9.406

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 Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1977, 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 177 countries · select a heading to sort

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1977: every country, as published by UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
derived
1CambodiaKHMSouth-eastern Asia543.024471.45624.79
2NigerNERWestern Africa336.559305.98368.45
3MaliMLIWestern Africa331.309305.44359.20
4Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa298.245269.57328.85
5South SudanSSDEastern Africa297.082225.52391.87
6GuineaGINWestern Africa295.447268.46324.79
7MalawiMWIEastern Africa285.256264.96307.82
8MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa264.513228.62306.61
9AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia262.878233.21298.03
10Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa260.486240.00283.41
11LiberiaLBRWestern Africa256.605230.55284.31
12RwandaRWAEastern Africa251.291232.95271.78
13GambiaGMBWestern Africa249.504219.55286.35
14YemenYEMWestern Asia248.578229.81269.70
15EthiopiaETHEastern Africa246.414223.44272.41
16BurundiBDIEastern Africa244.922218.43275.63
17ChadTCDMiddle Africa244.339220.20271.96
18SenegalSENWestern Africa231.302217.84244.94
19NigeriaNGAWestern Africa228.771206.91252.38
20NepalNPLSouthern Asia227.347209.89246.41
21BeninBENWestern Africa225.487209.28243.10
22BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia221.509210.20233.37
23DR CongoCODMiddle Africa218.165181.79259.30
24BhutanBTNSouthern Asia216.800176.92264.76
25UgandaUGAEastern Africa212.777194.95231.95

02In 1977

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Cambodia543.024
  2. 2Niger336.559
  3. 3Mali331.309
  4. 4Sierra Leone298.245
  5. 5South Sudan297.082

Lowest

  1. 177Sweden9.406
  2. 176Finland10.631
  3. 175Denmark11.084
  4. 174Norway11.517
  5. 173Iceland11.524

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 74.344. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Lower bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestCambodia471.45

    LowestSweden9.17

    Middle country: 65.48

  • Upper bound (90% uncertainty)

    HighestCambodia624.79

    LowestSweden9.64

    Middle country: 85.63

031976 → 1977

Since 1976

What changed between 1976 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +1 / −0countries joined / left
  • 176values changed, of 176 in both
  • 7 · 169rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Lebanon209.088 → 81.452−127.636
  • Guatemala165.364 → 135.671−29.693
  • Yemen261.383 → 248.578−12.806
  • Oman158.491 → 146.592−11.899
  • Senegal242.186 → 231.302−10.884
+ Turkmenistan

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 1977.

  • 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 177 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) (1977). Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1977 [data set], describing 1977. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/under-five-mortality/1977

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07Questions

Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1977: questions and answers

Which country has the highest under-five mortality rate in Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1977?

Cambodia, at 543.024, of the 177 countries in the file.

What year does Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1977 describe?

1977.

How many countries does Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1977 cover?

177.

Where can I download Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1977?

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

Is Under-Five Mortality Rate, 1977 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2024.

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