Neonatal deaths as a percentage of under-five deaths by country

Countries reporting
200
Highest
1
Andorra
Lowest
0
Niue
Median
0.5307
Years covered
45
1980–2024
Data points
9,238

What the numbers show

Neonatal deaths as a percentage of under-five deaths is currently reported for 200 countries. The highest value is 1 in Andorra; the lowest is 0 in Niue.

The median across all reporting countries is 0.5307, and the mean is 0.5235.

Over the past decade 116 countries rose and 81 fell. The largest increase was in Andorra (up 200.0%), and the largest decrease in San Marino (down 100.0%).

Neonatal deaths as a percentage of under-five deaths: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Andorra 1 2024 up 200.0% rising
1 Monaco 1 2024 unchanged rising
3 Dominica 0.8846 2024 up 3.8% rising
4 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0.7857 2024 up 25.7% rising
5 Jamaica 0.7616 2024 down 0.0% rising
6 Kosovo (UNSCR 1244) 0.7401 2024 up 6.4% rising
7 Republic of Moldova 0.7361 2024 down 5.2% rising
8 Belize 0.734 2024 up 8.8% rising
9 Albania 0.7235 2024 up 21.1% rising
10 Bahamas 0.7222 2024 up 24.3% rising
10 Cape Verde 0.7222 2024 up 15.1% rising
12 Switzerland 0.7121 2024 up 1.2% rising
13 Grenada 0.7083 2024 up 8.1% rising
14 Dominican Republic 0.692 2024 down 1.0% rising
15 Costa Rica 0.6913 2024 up 1.3% rising
16 Denmark 0.684 2024 down 3.7% rising
17 Netherlands 0.6808 2024 up 4.7% rising
18 Algeria 0.6798 2024 up 7.0% rising
19 Chile 0.6787 2024 up 4.5% rising
20 Barbados 0.6774 2024 down 2.9% rising
20 Maldives 0.6774 2024 up 21.6% rising
22 Sri Lanka 0.6686 2024 up 11.5% rising
23 Trinidad and Tobago 0.6678 2024 down 1.6% flat
24 Luxembourg 0.6667 2024 up 11.1% rising
25 Azerbaijan 0.6642 2024 up 16.2% rising
26 Italy 0.6628 2024 up 11.8% falling
27 Ireland 0.6602 2024 up 4.0% rising
28 Saint Lucia 0.6571 2024 down 7.1% rising
29 Malta 0.6522 2024 down 2.2% flat
30 Pakistan 0.6513 2024 up 8.9% rising
31 Qatar 0.6491 2024 up 27.8% rising
32 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 0.6477 2024 up 11.7% rising
33 Austria 0.6434 2024 up 4.5% rising
34 France 0.6412 2024 up 11.8% rising
35 Kyrgyzstan 0.641 2024 up 5.4% rising
36 Afghanistan 0.6356 2024 up 8.2% rising
37 Australia 0.6326 2024 up 6.7% rising
38 Mexico 0.6287 2024 up 27.0% rising
39 Iran, Islamic Republic of 0.6286 2024 down 5.3% rising
40 India 0.628 2024 up 9.4% rising
41 Bosnia and Herzegovina 0.6279 2024 down 8.2% rising
42 Tunisia 0.6275 2024 down 6.3% rising
43 Canada 0.6275 2024 down 6.0% rising
44 Egypt 0.6259 2024 up 7.8% rising
45 Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of 0.6251 2024 down 0.1% rising
46 Seychelles 0.625 2024 up 7.1% falling
47 Suriname 0.614 2024 down 2.6% rising
48 Mauritius 0.6133 2024 up 0.9% falling
49 Germany 0.612 2024 up 2.9% rising
50 Morocco 0.611 2024 up 0.2% rising
51 Guyana 0.6038 2024 down 2.1% rising
52 Nepal 0.6024 2024 up 0.0% rising
53 Antigua and Barbuda 0.6 2024 up 11.4% falling
54 Lebanon 0.5912 2024 down 8.0% flat
55 Bangladesh 0.5895 2024 down 2.9% rising
56 Senegal 0.5853 2024 up 21.9% rising
57 Belgium 0.5844 2024 up 6.8% rising
58 Oman 0.5792 2024 up 9.8% rising
59 Ethiopia 0.5782 2024 up 15.5% rising
60 Iraq 0.5776 2024 down 0.4% rising
61 Finland 0.5769 2024 up 6.7% falling
61 Norway 0.5769 2024 down 1.4% rising
63 Mauritania 0.5754 2024 up 8.1% rising
64 Slovenia 0.575 2024 up 1.1% flat
64 Sweden 0.575 2024 up 4.8% flat
66 Jordan 0.5745 2024 down 6.1% flat
67 Comoros 0.5735 2024 up 5.8% rising
68 Poland 0.5717 2024 down 3.0% falling
69 Uzbekistan 0.5712 2024 down 0.0% rising
70 Georgia 0.565 2024 down 18.5% rising
71 Brunei Darussalam 0.5645 2024 up 17.7% rising
72 Djibouti 0.5644 2024 up 10.9% rising
73 New Zealand 0.5643 2024 up 1.1% rising
74 Honduras 0.5641 2024 down 0.2% rising
75 Turkmenistan 0.5639 2024 up 0.0% rising
76 United States of America 0.5635 2024 down 3.3% rising
77 Ukraine 0.5634 2024 down 1.9% falling
78 Thailand 0.5627 2024 up 3.1% flat
79 Saint Kitts and Nevis 0.5556 2024 down 9.7% flat
79 Eswatini 0.5556 2024 up 26.0% rising
81 Yemen 0.5548 2024 up 6.2% rising
82 Namibia 0.5517 2024 up 10.9% rising
83 Tanzania, United Republic of 0.5497 2024 up 26.7% rising
84 Greece 0.5496 2024 down 5.1% falling
85 Hungary 0.5486 2024 up 0.8% falling
86 Gambia 0.548 2024 up 11.4% rising
87 Lithuania 0.5467 2024 up 13.0% rising
88 Syria 0.5424 2024 up 113.4% falling
89 Serbia 0.5418 2024 down 15.7% flat
90 Cyprus 0.5417 2024 down 3.1% flat
91 Colombia 0.5415 2024 down 0.2% flat
92 Kenya 0.5409 2024 up 12.0% rising
93 Armenia 0.5398 2024 up 3.4% rising
94 Kuwait 0.5392 2024 down 2.0% flat
95 Ecuador 0.5388 2024 up 16.4% rising
96 Uruguay 0.536 2024 down 1.1% rising
97 Spain 0.5359 2024 down 7.4% rising
98 North Korea 0.535 2024 down 1.1% rising
99 Botswana 0.533 2024 up 14.4% rising
100 Argentina 0.5309 2024 down 10.2% flat
101 Myanmar 0.5305 2024 up 10.4% rising
102 Paraguay 0.5272 2024 down 2.5% flat
103 Portugal 0.5271 2024 down 6.7% rising
104 Zimbabwe 0.5264 2024 up 17.9% rising
105 Vanuatu 0.526 2024 down 9.1% flat
106 Libya 0.5244 2024 down 2.3% falling
107 Czechia 0.5226 2024 up 3.6% falling
108 Mongolia 0.5183 2024 up 4.4% rising
109 Micronesia, Federated States of 0.5179 2024 down 2.6% flat
110 Indonesia 0.517 2024 up 1.5% rising
111 Malaysia 0.5159 2024 down 0.4% rising
112 Cambodia 0.5149 2024 down 1.9% rising
113 Philippines 0.5148 2024 up 9.5% rising
114 Fiji 0.5134 2024 up 30.3% rising
115 Papua New Guinea 0.5134 2024 up 9.4% rising
116 United Arab Emirates 0.512 2024 down 4.6% falling
117 Israel 0.5104 2024 down 6.2% flat
118 Slovakia 0.5091 2024 up 3.5% falling
119 Ghana 0.5081 2024 up 8.8% rising
120 Peru 0.505 2024 up 4.3% rising
121 Gabon 0.5034 2024 up 3.8% rising
122 Bahrain 0.5029 2024 up 15.6% falling
123 Iceland 0.5 2024 down 8.3% falling
123 Naoero 0.5 2024 down 12.5% flat
123 Palau 0.5 2024 down 16.7% rising
123 Turks and Caicos Islands 0.5 2024 down 25.0% falling
123 Tuvalu 0.5 2024 up 16.7% falling
123 British Virgin Islands 0.5 2024 down 16.7% falling
123 Cook Islands 0.5 2024 unchanged falling
130 Viet Nam 0.4979 2024 down 7.1% rising
131 Brazil 0.4969 2024 down 17.1% rising
132 Saudi Arabia 0.4946 2024 down 5.7% falling
133 Malawi 0.4943 2024 up 21.1% rising
134 Cuba 0.4897 2024 up 17.9% falling
135 Romania 0.4896 2024 up 3.6% flat
136 Guinea-Bissau 0.4824 2024 up 12.0% rising
137 Lesotho 0.4782 2024 up 5.9% rising
138 Sao Tome and Principe 0.4773 2024 up 3.2% rising
139 Croatia 0.4751 2024 down 24.1% falling
140 Türkiye 0.4743 2024 down 4.6% flat
141 Nicaragua 0.4731 2024 down 22.7% rising
142 Latvia 0.4722 2024 down 14.3% flat
143 Bolivia, Plurinational State of 0.4696 2024 down 3.3% rising
144 Eritrea 0.467 2024 up 13.1% rising
145 Rwanda 0.4653 2024 up 10.6% rising
146 Guatemala 0.4631 2024 down 0.9% rising
147 Timor-Leste 0.4548 2024 up 11.5% rising
148 Zambia 0.4535 2024 up 17.5% rising
149 Bulgaria 0.4492 2024 down 8.0% rising
150 Lao People's Democratic Republic 0.4481 2024 up 6.4% rising
151 Uganda 0.4448 2024 up 10.6% rising
152 Estonia 0.4348 2024 down 2.7% falling
152 Tonga 0.4348 2024 up 1.4% flat
154 Mozambique 0.433 2024 up 26.3% rising
155 Côte d'Ivoire 0.4327 2024 up 14.0% rising
156 Congo 0.4319 2024 up 15.8% rising
157 Haiti 0.4303 2024 up 12.0% rising
158 El Salvador 0.4303 2024 down 2.3% flat
159 South Sudan 0.4296 2024 up 91.1% rising
160 China 0.4242 2024 down 17.1% falling
161 Bhutan 0.4235 2024 down 11.8% rising
162 Singapore 0.4141 2024 up 1.1% falling
163 Republic of Korea 0.4138 2024 down 8.6% falling
164 Burundi 0.4121 2024 up 16.8% rising
165 Togo 0.4101 2024 up 14.7% rising
166 Kazakhstan 0.4092 2024 down 16.4% flat
167 Marshall Islands 0.4091 2024 down 10.7% rising
168 Kiribati 0.4088 2024 up 2.0% flat
169 Solomon Islands 0.406 2024 down 2.8% flat
170 Equatorial Guinea 0.3998 2024 up 14.8% rising
171 Mali 0.3965 2024 up 20.8% rising
172 Tajikistan 0.3925 2024 down 8.4% rising
173 Cameroon 0.3907 2024 up 16.9% rising
174 Samoa 0.3902 2024 down 3.7% falling
175 Liberia 0.3887 2024 up 9.2% rising
176 Sudan 0.3874 2024 down 13.3% rising
177 Angola 0.3804 2024 up 9.1% rising
178 Madagascar 0.3773 2024 up 2.0% rising
179 Russian Federation 0.3759 2024 down 26.3% flat
180 North Macedonia 0.375 2024 down 47.3% rising
181 Benin 0.3719 2024 up 9.9% rising
182 Central African Republic 0.3582 2024 up 90.0% falling
183 South Africa 0.3551 2024 up 18.4% rising
184 Montenegro 0.3529 2024 down 39.5% falling
185 Somalia 0.3518 2024 up 11.8% rising
186 Japan 0.3494 2024 up 7.0% falling
187 Panama 0.3471 2024 down 18.5% falling
188 Nigeria 0.3448 2024 up 5.4% rising
189 Chad 0.3372 2024 up 18.2% rising
190 Guinea 0.3299 2024 up 8.4% rising
191 Burkina Faso 0.3243 2024 up 14.7% rising
192 Sierra Leone 0.3172 2024 up 23.0% rising
193 Niger 0.3093 2024 up 8.8% rising
194 Belarus 0.2994 2024 down 22.5% falling
195 Congo, Democratic Republic of the 0.2738 2024 down 0.3% rising
196 Palestine, State of 0.2334 2024 down 57.8% flat
197 San Marino 0 2014 down 100.0% volatile
197 Anguilla 0 2024 down 100.0% volatile
197 Montserrat 0 2007 down 100.0% volatile
197 Niue 0 2024 volatile

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Indicator
Neonatal deaths as a percentage of under-five deaths
Source
UNICEF
Licence
UNICEF Terms of Use (attribution required)
Coverage
259 places, 9,238 data points, 1980–2024
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