NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC) – Hosted by CIESIN at Columbia University

Poverty Mapping

Global Subnational Infant Mortality Rates, v1 (2000)

The global data sets are all translated to a common quarter-degree grid. A quarter-degree grid cell is approximately 770 square kilometers (300 square miles) at the equator, and progressively less at higher latitudes.

Infant Mortality Rates

[Deaths : Live Births]

  • Download Shapefile - Shapefile of infant mortality rate
  • Download Grid
    • ¼ degree grid of infant mortality rate
    • ¼ degree grid of births [denominator]
    • ¼ degree grid of deaths [numerator]
    • 2.5 minute grid of infant mortality rate
    • 2.5 minute grid of births [denominator]
    • 2.5 minute grid of deaths [numerator]
  • Download Data Table 
    • Microsoft Excel and Comma-Separated Value tables of infant mortality rate at two resolutions:
      1. Highest resolution that can be matched spatially (same resolution as shapefile)
      2. Highest resolution available in tabular format (sometimes higher than could be matched spatially)

Ancillary Grid Data 

[Country, population, land area, latitude, longitude, and sequence id number for each quarter-degree grid cell]