Mortality rate, under-5 (per 1,000) - Basic indicators - Basic Inds. and Nat. Accts - African Development Indicators
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Under-5 mortality rate is the probability that a newborn baby will die before reaching age five, if subject to current age-specific mortality rates. The probability is expressed as a rate per 1,000. Source: Harmonized estimates of the World Health Organization, UNICEF, and the World Bank, based mainly on household surveys, censuses, and vital registration, supplemented by World Bank estimates based on household surveys and vital registration.
| Mortality rate, under-5 (per 1,000) - Basic indicators - Basic Inds. and Nat. Accts - African Development Indicators (2007) |
Rank | Country | Value |
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| 1 |  Sierra Leone | 261.80 |
| 2 | Chad | 209 |
| 3 | Equatorial Guinea | 206 |
| 4 | Guinea-Bissau | 198 |
| 5 | Mali | 195.60 |
| 6 | Burkina Faso | 190.70 |
| 7 | Nigeria | 188.80 |
| 8 | Rwanda | 180.60 |
| 9 | Burundi | 179.50 |
| 10 | Niger | 175.50 |
| 11 | Central African Republic | 171.90 |
| 12 | Zambia | 169.80 |
| 13 | Mozambique | 168.47 |
| 14 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 161.40 |
| 15 | Angola | 158 |
| 16 | Guinea | 150.30 |
| 17 | Sub-Saharan Africa excluding South Africa | 148.92 |
| 18 | Cameroon | 148.20 |
| 19 | Sub-Saharan Africa | 145.82 |
| 20 | Somalia | 141.50 |
| 21 | Sub-Saharan Africa excluding South Africa and Nigeria | 139.14 |
| 22 | Africa | 134.13 |
| 23 | Liberia | 132.80 |
| 24 | Uganda | 130.40 |
| 25 | Djibouti | 127.40 |
| 26 | Ivory Coast | 126.50 |
| 27 | Republic of the Congo | 125.40 |
| 28 | Benin | 123.40 |
| 29 | Kenya | 121.20 |
| 30 | Ethiopia | 118.60 |
| 31 | Mauritania | 118.50 |
| 32 | Tanzania | 115.60 |
| 33 | Ghana | 115.20 |
| 34 | Senegal | 113.60 |
| 35 | Madagascar | 111.80 |
| 36 | Malawi | 110.50 |
| 37 | Sudan | 108.60 |
| 38 | Gambia | 108.60 |
| 39 | Togo | 100.30 |
| 40 | Sao Tome and Principe | 98.70 |
| 41 | Gabon | 91 |
| 42 | Swaziland | 90.90 |
| 43 | Zimbabwe | 90 |
| 44 | Lesotho | 83.50 |
| 45 | Eritrea | 70.40 |
| 46 | Namibia | 67.60 |
| 47 | Comoros | 65.80 |
| 48 | South Africa | 59 |
| 49 | Botswana | 39.70 |
| 50 | Algeria | 37 |
| 51 | Egypt | 36.20 |
| 52 | North Africa | 34.58 |
| 53 | Morocco | 34.40 |
| 54 | Cape Verde | 32.20 |
| 55 | Tunisia | 21.20 |
| 56 | Libya | 17.80 |
| 57 | Mauritius | 15.10 |
| 58 | Seychelles | 12.82 |
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