Infant mortality in Asia

48 countries in Asia, 2024. Unit: per 1,000 live births. World ranking →

First in the ranking
1.8 ‰
Japan
Median country
12.0 ‰
half above, half below
World
27.7 ‰
World Bank aggregate
Range
1.8 to 48.3
Japan - Afghanistan

How to read it

Across 48 countries in Asia, the highest value is in Afghanistan (48.3 ‰) and the lowest in Japan (1.8 ‰).

The median country is at 12.0 ‰: half are above, half below.

Infant mortality rate is the number of infants dying before reaching one year of age, per 1,000 live births in a given year.

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Source: UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation, UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), uri: www.childmortality.org; World Health Organization (WHO), uri… · via World Bank WDI (SP.DYN.IMRT.IN) · licence

Infant mortality over time

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Ranking of countries

2024
In chart Share of the highest value
1Japan1.8
2Singapore2.2
3South Korea2.3
4Israel2.7
5United Arab Emirates3.8
6China4.1
7Cyprus4.1
8Maldives4.7
9Saudi Arabia4.7
10Qatar4.8
11Sri Lanka5.2
12Kuwait7.0
13Malaysia7.0
14Bahrain7.3
15Kazakhstan7.4
16Georgia7.5
17Thailand7.7
18Türkiye8.0
19Oman8.3
20Armenia8.5
21Brunei8.6
22Iran10.3
23Mongolia11.2
24Jordan12.0
25Vietnam12.0
26Azerbaijan12.5
27Uzbekistan12.8
28North Korea13.3
29Bhutan13.7
30Kyrgyzstan14.8
31Indonesia15.2
32Lebanon15.3
33Cambodia16.4
34Palestine17.0
35Syria17.7
36Iraq20.1
37Philippines21.7
38Nepal22.2
39India23.3
40Tajikistan23.5
41Bangladesh24.4
42Laos27.2
43Turkmenistan30.4
44Myanmar32.8
45Yemen33.8
46Timor-Leste34.6
47Pakistan48.2
48Afghanistan48.3
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