[luckylion]

Not sure when you checked, but it's been steadily sinking and is under 50 now, and there's no reason to believe it won't continue that way (it fell even under the Taliban). I'm not sure they'll get to Western levels, but they're closing the gap.

[mcny]

Thank you. Seems like I had just really poor search skills. I somehow reached here https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/field/infant-mortalit... which I guess has not been updated since the early nineties?

https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/field/infant-mortalit... archived at https://archive.fo/v3bco

Thank you for the correction. This is great news (to me)!