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Nigeria
Mortality rate, neonatal (per 1,000 live births)

Neonatal mortality rate is the number of neonates dying before reaching 28 days of age, per 1,000 live births in a given year.

Global rank#2out of 196 countries
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Historical trend

71.162.754.346.037.6196719962024Nigeria · 2024: 39.00Nigeria

Analytical takeaways

  • Nigeria records 39.00 for Mortality rate, neonatal (per 1,000 live births) in 2024, ranking #2 globally out of 196 countries.
  • Mortality rate, neonatal (per 1,000 live births) declined from 70.40 in 1967 to 39.00 in 2024, a decrease of 31.40.
  • The country sits in the top quartile of the global distribution for this metric, making the page useful for leader-oriented high-intent searches.

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