Mortality rate, infant, both sexes (per 1,000 live births) - MDGs - Millenium Development Goals - African Development Indicators
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Infant mortality rate is the number of infants dying before reaching one year of age, per 1,000 live births in a given year. 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, infant, both sexes (per 1,000 live births) - MDGs - Millenium Development Goals - African Development Indicators (2007) |
Rank | Country | Value |
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| 1 |  Sierra Leone | 155 |
| 2 | Chad | 124.02 |
| 3 | Equatorial Guinea | 123.60 |
| 4 | Guinea-Bissau | 118.08 |
| 5 | Mali | 116.80 |
| 6 | Angola | 115.70 |
| 7 | Mozambique | 115.39 |
| 8 | Central African Republic | 112.86 |
| 9 | Rwanda | 108.84 |
| 10 | Burundi | 108.27 |
| 11 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 107.74 |
| 12 | Burkina Faso | 104.10 |
| 13 | Zambia | 103.25 |
| 14 | Nigeria | 97.20 |
| 15 | Liberia | 93.05 |
| 16 | Guinea | 92.64 |
| 17 | Sub-Saharan Africa excluding South Africa | 89.68 |
| 18 | Ivory Coast | 89.08 |
| 19 | Sub-Saharan Africa | 88.18 |
| 20 | Sub-Saharan Africa excluding South Africa and Nigeria | 87.84 |
| 21 | Somalia | 87.81 |
| 22 | Cameroon | 86.60 |
| 23 | Djibouti | 84.40 |
| 24 | Niger | 82.90 |
| 25 | Africa | 82.04 |
| 26 | Uganda | 81.70 |
| 27 | Gambia | 81.50 |
| 28 | Kenya | 79.80 |
| 29 | Republic of the Congo | 78.90 |
| 30 | Benin | 77.80 |
| 31 | Mauritania | 75.20 |
| 32 | Ethiopia | 75.20 |
| 33 | Tanzania | 73.43 |
| 34 | Ghana | 73.20 |
| 35 | Malawi | 70.56 |
| 36 | Madagascar | 70 |
| 37 | Sudan | 69.49 |
| 38 | Lesotho | 68.04 |
| 39 | Swaziland | 66.43 |
| 40 | Togo | 65.10 |
| 41 | Sao Tome and Principe | 63.70 |
| 42 | Gabon | 60 |
| 43 | Zimbabwe | 58.94 |
| 44 | Senegal | 58.90 |
| 45 | Comoros | 49.40 |
| 46 | Namibia | 47.13 |
| 47 | South Africa | 46.05 |
| 48 | Eritrea | 45.60 |
| 49 | Algeria | 32.80 |
| 50 | Botswana | 32.52 |
| 51 | Morocco | 32.40 |
| 52 | Egypt | 29.91 |
| 53 | North Africa | 29.79 |
| 54 | Cape Verde | 24 |
| 55 | Tunisia | 18 |
| 56 | Libya | 16.50 |
| 57 | Mauritius | 12.80 |
| 58 | Seychelles | 11.60 |
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