Infant mortality rate
per 1,000 live births
- Published value. Native scale: deaths per 1,000 live births, positive.
- Transform: ln(value) — so that equal ratios count equally: going from 1,000 to 2,000 scores the same as 20,000 to 40,000.
- Goalposts (fixed for all years; 2.5th and 97.5th percentiles of all observed country-years): worst = 88.6 (transformed 4.4836) scores 0, best = 2.20 (transformed 0.7885) scores 100.
- Direction: lower is better, so the position is flipped (1 − position).
- Clip and scale: anything below the worst goalpost scores 0 and anything above the best scores 100; multiply by 100.
Where the numbers come from
- UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UNICEF, WHO, World Bank, UN Population Division) produces the series — A single joint estimate per country-year, modelled from vital registration, censuses and household surveys; the four agencies publish the same number.
Source statement as published by the data provider (verbatim)
UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation, UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), uri: www.childmortality.org; World Health Organization (WHO), uri: www.childmortality.org, note: UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation; World Bank (WB), uri: www.childmortality.org, note: UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation; United Nations (UN), uri: www.childmortality.org, note: UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation, publisher: UN Population Division
Infant mortality rate is the number of infants dying before reaching one year of age, per 1,000 live births in a given year.
Every country row below has a “verify” link to this series filtered to that country, so each value can be checked against the source.
History
Countries ranked on this indicator
196 countries have a usable value for 2024 (0 carried forward from an earlier year); 21 have none within 3 years.
No official value for 2024: 21 countries
Aruba, American Samoa, Bermuda, Channel Islands, Curacao, Cayman Islands, Faroe Islands, Gibraltar, Greenland, Guam, Hong Kong SAR, China, Isle of Man, Liechtenstein, Macao SAR, China, St. Martin (French part), Northern Mariana Islands, New Caledonia, Puerto Rico (US), French Polynesia, Sint Maarten (Dutch part), Virgin Islands (U.S.)