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Number of neonatal deaths, per square kilometre by country

Number of neonatal deaths divided by Land area (sq. km), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.

Countries reporting
195
Highest
0.4826 units per square kilometre
Bangladesh
Lowest
0 units per square kilometre
San Marino
Median
0.0119 units per square kilometre
Years covered
63
1961–2023
Data points
10,861

What the numbers show

Number of neonatal deaths, per square kilometre is currently reported for 195 countries. The highest value is 0.4826 units per square kilometre in Bangladesh; the lowest is 0 units per square kilometre in San Marino.

The median across all reporting countries is 0.0119 units per square kilometre, and the mean is 0.0398 units per square kilometre.

Over the past decade 31 countries rose and 161 fell. The largest increase was in Cyprus (up 80.0%), and the largest decrease in North Macedonia (down 86.7%).

Number of neonatal deaths, per square kilometre: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Bangladesh 0.4826 units per square kilometre 2023 down 23.8% falling
2 Monaco 0.4798 units per square kilometre 2023 down 2.7% falling
3 Burundi 0.3484 units per square kilometre 2023 down 22.0% rising
4 Pakistan 0.3304 units per square kilometre 2023 down 19.1% rising
5 Nigeria 0.3233 units per square kilometre 2023 up 6.8% rising
6 Comoros 0.2972 units per square kilometre 2023 down 13.9% falling
7 Rwanda 0.2829 units per square kilometre 2023 down 6.9% falling
8 Palestine 0.2239 units per square kilometre 2023 down 22.3% falling
9 Haiti 0.2167 units per square kilometre 2023 down 18.2% falling
10 Gambia 0.1906 units per square kilometre 2023 down 21.2% falling
11 Uganda 0.1833 units per square kilometre 2023 up 5.7% rising
12 Malawi 0.1669 units per square kilometre 2023 up 4.2% falling
13 India 0.1369 units per square kilometre 2023 down 44.5% falling
14 Togo 0.1225 units per square kilometre 2023 down 6.8% rising
15 Benin 0.1173 units per square kilometre 2023 down 3.1% rising
16 Bahrain 0.1075 units per square kilometre 2023 up 31.4% volatile
17 Sierra Leone 0.1033 units per square kilometre 2023 down 14.6% falling
18 Ethiopia 0.0943 units per square kilometre 2023 down 6.2% falling
19 Kiribati 0.0938 units per square kilometre 2023 down 3.8% falling
20 Lebanon 0.0926 units per square kilometre 2023 up 21.9% volatile
21 Dominican Republic 0.092 units per square kilometre 2023 down 15.1% falling
22 Cote d'Ivoire 0.0875 units per square kilometre 2023 down 14.0% rising
23 Philippines 0.0858 units per square kilometre 2023 down 23.5% falling
24 Afghanistan 0.0763 units per square kilometre 2023 down 10.9% flat
25 Guinea-Bissau 0.0751 units per square kilometre 2023 down 18.5% falling
26 Maldives 0.0738 units per square kilometre 2023 down 51.9% volatile
27 Ghana 0.073 units per square kilometre 2023 down 27.9% falling
28 Singapore 0.0696 units per square kilometre 2023 down 1.5% volatile
29 Tuvalu 0.0667 units per square kilometre 2023 down 33.3% falling
30 Burkina Faso 0.0643 units per square kilometre 2023 down 18.0% flat
31 Nepal 0.0635 units per square kilometre 2023 down 40.6% falling
32 Marshall Islands 0.0611 units per square kilometre 2023 down 52.2% falling
33 Guinea 0.0601 units per square kilometre 2023 down 0.6% falling
34 Senegal 0.0598 units per square kilometre 2023 down 10.5% rising
35 Liberia 0.0584 units per square kilometre 2023 up 1.8% falling
36 Mauritius 0.0561 units per square kilometre 2023 down 15.2% volatile
37 Yemen 0.056 units per square kilometre 2023 up 14.0% falling
38 Tanzania 0.0545 units per square kilometre 2023 up 8.9% rising
39 Kenya 0.0545 units per square kilometre 2023 down 8.9% rising
40 Lesotho 0.0534 units per square kilometre 2023 down 25.2% falling
41 Equatorial Guinea 0.0521 units per square kilometre 2023 down 8.1% rising
42 Barbados 0.0512 units per square kilometre 2023 down 29.0% volatile
43 Cameroon 0.051 units per square kilometre 2023 down 2.6% rising
44 Grenada 0.05 units per square kilometre 2023 down 10.5% falling
44 Malta 0.05 units per square kilometre 2023 down 11.1% volatile
44 Nauru 0.05 units per square kilometre 2023 down 75.0% falling
47 Democratic Republic of Congo 0.0459 units per square kilometre 2023 up 28.3% rising
48 East Timor 0.0454 units per square kilometre 2023 down 22.2% falling
49 Sao Tome and Principe 0.0448 units per square kilometre 2023 down 51.1% falling
50 Eswatini 0.0439 units per square kilometre 2023 down 14.7% rising
51 Somalia 0.0438 units per square kilometre 2023 up 7.4% rising
52 Zimbabwe 0.0431 units per square kilometre 2023 up 20.5% rising
53 Micronesia (country) 0.0429 units per square kilometre 2023 down 30.2% falling
54 Jamaica 0.0423 units per square kilometre 2023 down 19.9% falling
55 Mozambique 0.0409 units per square kilometre 2023 up 15.2% falling
56 Trinidad and Tobago 0.0407 units per square kilometre 2023 down 31.9% falling
57 Vietnam 0.0404 units per square kilometre 2023 down 31.4% falling
58 Madagascar 0.0401 units per square kilometre 2023 up 16.5% rising
59 Saint Lucia 0.0377 units per square kilometre 2023 down 23.3% falling
60 Egypt 0.0344 units per square kilometre 2023 down 19.5% falling
61 Iraq 0.0344 units per square kilometre 2023 down 30.5% falling
62 Guatemala 0.0344 units per square kilometre 2023 down 36.4% falling
63 Seychelles 0.0326 units per square kilometre 2023 up 7.1% falling
64 Dominica 0.0307 units per square kilometre 2023 up 9.5% falling
65 Niger 0.0287 units per square kilometre 2023 up 20.1% rising
66 Djibouti 0.0286 units per square kilometre 2023 down 21.0% falling
67 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0.0282 units per square kilometre 2023 down 47.6% volatile
68 Myanmar 0.0279 units per square kilometre 2023 down 24.5% falling
69 Syria 0.0278 units per square kilometre 2023 down 15.9% falling
70 North Korea 0.0274 units per square kilometre 2023 down 24.4% falling
71 Saint Kitts and Nevis 0.0231 units per square kilometre 2023 down 25.0% falling
72 Indonesia 0.0225 units per square kilometre 2023 down 42.6% falling
73 Mali 0.0224 units per square kilometre 2023 down 6.7% falling
74 Tajikistan 0.0222 units per square kilometre 2023 down 19.8% falling
75 Sudan 0.0218 units per square kilometre 2023 up 2.3% flat
76 Sri Lanka 0.0216 units per square kilometre 2023 down 36.4% volatile
77 El Salvador 0.0216 units per square kilometre 2023 down 46.6% volatile
78 South Sudan 0.0205 units per square kilometre 2023 down 23.4% falling
79 Angola 0.0204 units per square kilometre 2023 up 0.4% falling
80 Cambodia 0.0203 units per square kilometre 2023 down 46.4% falling
81 Jordan 0.0203 units per square kilometre 2023 down 12.5% flat
82 Chad 0.0201 units per square kilometre 2023 up 7.2% rising
83 Zambia 0.0199 units per square kilometre 2023 up 2.8% rising
84 Azerbaijan 0.0195 units per square kilometre 2023 down 52.3% falling
85 Honduras 0.0181 units per square kilometre 2023 down 25.4% falling
86 Uzbekistan 0.0168 units per square kilometre 2023 down 15.5% falling
87 Morocco 0.0141 units per square kilometre 2023 down 42.4% falling
88 Tonga 0.0139 units per square kilometre 2023 down 33.3% falling
89 Israel 0.0139 units per square kilometre 2023 down 17.8% falling
90 Fiji 0.0137 units per square kilometre 2023 up 56.2% falling
91 Antigua and Barbuda 0.0136 units per square kilometre 2023 down 14.3% falling
92 Cape Verde 0.0134 units per square kilometre 2023 down 59.7% falling
93 British Virgin Islands 0.0133 units per square kilometre 2023 unchanged falling
94 Eritrea 0.0132 units per square kilometre 2023 down 18.8% falling
95 Netherlands 0.0131 units per square kilometre 2023 down 4.7% volatile
96 Kuwait 0.0127 units per square kilometre 2023 down 24.7% falling
97 Moldova 0.0121 units per square kilometre 2023 down 29.2% falling
98 South Africa 0.0119 units per square kilometre 2023 up 1.9% falling
99 Samoa 0.0119 units per square kilometre 2023 down 25.3% falling
100 Central African Republic 0.0117 units per square kilometre 2023 up 0.6% rising
101 Papua New Guinea 0.0116 units per square kilometre 2023 down 14.3% rising
102 Qatar 0.0099 units per square kilometre 2023 up 23.9% rising
103 Laos 0.0096 units per square kilometre 2023 down 36.4% falling
104 Congo 0.0093 units per square kilometre 2023 down 13.4% rising
105 Tunisia 0.009 units per square kilometre 2023 down 47.3% volatile
106 Mexico 0.0089 units per square kilometre 2023 down 12.6% volatile
107 Kyrgyzstan 0.0086 units per square kilometre 2023 down 26.4% falling
108 United Kingdom 0.0084 units per square kilometre 2023 down 4.0% volatile
109 Nicaragua 0.0078 units per square kilometre 2023 down 42.5% falling
110 Turkmenistan 0.0078 units per square kilometre 2023 down 2.7% rising
111 Ecuador 0.0077 units per square kilometre 2023 down 21.5% volatile
112 Belgium 0.0074 units per square kilometre 2023 down 20.6% falling
113 Venezuela 0.0073 units per square kilometre 2023 down 2.5% falling
114 Albania 0.0072 units per square kilometre 2023 down 12.4% volatile
115 Costa Rica 0.0072 units per square kilometre 2023 down 17.4% volatile
116 Vanuatu 0.0068 units per square kilometre 2023 down 4.6% falling
117 Brunei 0.0066 units per square kilometre 2023 up 2.9% falling
118 Turkey 0.0066 units per square kilometre 2023 down 44.1% volatile
119 Armenia 0.0065 units per square kilometre 2023 down 51.6% volatile
120 Solomon Islands 0.0064 units per square kilometre 2023 down 11.4% flat
121 Thailand 0.0061 units per square kilometre 2023 down 44.6% volatile
122 Switzerland 0.0059 units per square kilometre 2023 down 5.6% volatile
123 Panama 0.0059 units per square kilometre 2023 down 24.8% falling
124 Algeria 0.0058 units per square kilometre 2023 down 13.4% falling
125 Malaysia 0.0056 units per square kilometre 2023 down 11.4% falling
126 Iran 0.0054 units per square kilometre 2023 down 46.1% falling
127 Germany 0.0047 units per square kilometre 2023 up 5.4% volatile
128 Gabon 0.0045 units per square kilometre 2023 down 13.6% rising
129 Palau 0.0043 units per square kilometre 2023 down 33.3% falling
130 Colombia 0.0041 units per square kilometre 2023 down 29.9% falling
131 Bahamas 0.004 units per square kilometre 2023 down 7.0% falling
132 Cyprus 0.0039 units per square kilometre 2023 up 80.0% volatile
133 Luxembourg 0.0039 units per square kilometre 2023 up 11.1% falling
134 Cuba 0.0039 units per square kilometre 2023 up 23.4% volatile
135 Denmark 0.0038 units per square kilometre 2023 down 6.2% volatile
136 United Arab Emirates 0.0036 units per square kilometre 2023 down 28.3% falling
137 Mauritania 0.0036 units per square kilometre 2023 down 4.1% rising
138 Slovakia 0.0035 units per square kilometre 2023 down 8.8% falling
139 France 0.0033 units per square kilometre 2023 down 3.3% volatile
140 Georgia 0.0032 units per square kilometre 2023 down 51.6% volatile
141 Paraguay 0.0031 units per square kilometre 2023 down 27.0% falling
142 Belize 0.003 units per square kilometre 2023 down 16.9% falling
143 South Korea 0.0029 units per square kilometre 2023 down 61.4% volatile
144 Peru 0.0028 units per square kilometre 2023 down 25.3% volatile
145 Romania 0.0027 units per square kilometre 2023 down 34.8% volatile
146 Poland 0.0026 units per square kilometre 2023 down 30.7% volatile
147 China 0.0026 units per square kilometre 2023 down 78.7% volatile
148 Brazil 0.0024 units per square kilometre 2023 down 32.4% volatile
149 Italy 0.0024 units per square kilometre 2023 down 39.4% volatile
150 Serbia 0.0022 units per square kilometre 2023 down 37.6% falling
151 Bosnia and Herzegovina 0.0022 units per square kilometre 2023 down 26.5% volatile
152 Andorra 0.0021 units per square kilometre 2023 unchanged volatile
153 Namibia 0.0021 units per square kilometre 2023 up 1.2% rising
154 Austria 0.002 units per square kilometre 2023 down 9.7% volatile
155 Bhutan 0.002 units per square kilometre 2023 down 63.1% volatile
156 Hungary 0.002 units per square kilometre 2023 down 33.6% volatile
157 Ireland 0.002 units per square kilometre 2023 down 22.0% volatile
158 Botswana 0.002 units per square kilometre 2023 down 18.9% rising
159 Bolivia 0.0018 units per square kilometre 2023 down 47.9% falling
160 Japan 0.0017 units per square kilometre 2023 down 37.5% volatile
161 Ukraine 0.0017 units per square kilometre 2023 down 67.9% falling
162 Czechia 0.0017 units per square kilometre 2023 down 22.7% falling
163 Portugal 0.0016 units per square kilometre 2023 down 17.0% volatile
164 Croatia 0.0016 units per square kilometre 2023 down 31.2% falling
165 Bulgaria 0.0015 units per square kilometre 2023 down 44.3% volatile
166 Oman 0.0015 units per square kilometre 2023 up 5.1% volatile
167 United States 0.0014 units per square kilometre 2023 down 17.7% falling
168 Greece 0.0013 units per square kilometre 2023 down 29.0% volatile
169 Guyana 0.0013 units per square kilometre 2023 down 32.1% falling
170 Spain 0.0012 units per square kilometre 2023 down 32.3% volatile
171 Slovenia 0.0011 units per square kilometre 2023 down 32.3% falling
172 Chile 0.0011 units per square kilometre 2023 down 35.2% volatile
173 Turks and Caicos Islands 0.0011 units per square kilometre 2023 down 50.0% falling
174 Argentina 0.001 units per square kilometre 2023 down 50.7% falling
175 North Macedonia 0.001 units per square kilometre 2023 down 86.7% volatile
176 Uruguay 0.0008 units per square kilometre 2023 down 43.2% volatile
177 Saudi Arabia 0.0008 units per square kilometre 2023 down 43.7% falling
178 Suriname 0.0007 units per square kilometre 2023 down 30.1% falling
179 Lithuania 0.0007 units per square kilometre 2023 down 45.3% volatile
180 Kazakhstan 0.0007 units per square kilometre 2023 down 39.3% falling
181 New Zealand 0.0006 units per square kilometre 2023 down 16.9% volatile
182 Montenegro 0.0004 units per square kilometre 2023 down 76.0% volatile
183 Libya 0.0004 units per square kilometre 2023 down 34.5% volatile
184 Sweden 0.0003 units per square kilometre 2023 down 21.8% volatile
185 Mongolia 0.0003 units per square kilometre 2023 down 37.2% falling
186 Latvia 0.0003 units per square kilometre 2023 down 71.6% volatile
187 Estonia 0.0003 units per square kilometre 2023 down 49.1% volatile
188 Belarus 0.0003 units per square kilometre 2023 down 74.4% volatile
189 Norway 0.0002 units per square kilometre 2023 down 27.1% volatile
190 Finland 0.0002 units per square kilometre 2023 down 28.9% volatile
191 Russia 0.0002 units per square kilometre 2023 down 68.9% falling
192 Canada 0.0001 units per square kilometre 2023 down 10.6% falling
193 Australia 0.0001 units per square kilometre 2023 down 6.4% volatile
194 Iceland 0.0001 units per square kilometre 2023 down 0.6% volatile
195 San Marino 0 units per square kilometre 2023 — volatile

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Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

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Number of neonatal deaths divided by Land area (sq. km), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.

Number of neonatal deaths ÷ Land area (sq. km)

Computed from

  • Number of neonatal deaths UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation, UN Children's Fund (UNICEF)
  • Land area FAOSTAT, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

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Indicator
Number of neonatal deaths, per square kilometre
Unit
units per square kilometre
Source
Statizoid (derived)
Licence
Derived by Statizoid from the sources named on the page
Coverage
242 places, 10,861 data points, 1961–2023
Last refreshed

Number of neonatal deaths divided by Land area (sq. km), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.