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Ten Countries/Areas With Highest & Lowest Infant Mortality, 1995-2000

 

Infant Mortality Rate (Per 1,000 Live Births) World Average 57
Highest Infant Mortality Lowest Infant Mortality

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8

9

10


Sierra Leone

Afghanistan

Malawi

East Timor

Guinea-Bissau

Angola

Guinea

Rwanda

Somalia

Gambia


170

151

138

135

130

125

124

124

122

122


1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

Japan

Singapore

Norway

Germany

Iceland

Sweden

Finland

Australia

Switzerland

China, Hong Kong


4

5

5

5

5

5

6

6

6

6

As of 1 July 1997, Hong Kong became a Special Administrative Region of (SAR) of China.

Countries or areas with 150,000 persons or more in 1995

 

Table 28: Published in: Population Division of the Department of
Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat,
The World at Six Billion. (ESA/P/WP.154), 12 October 1999.

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