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This study describes the incidence of neonatal mortality rates (NMR) stratified by newborn size at birth for gestational age and identifies its predictors at five public hospitals in Ethiopia.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"sec002\"><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>A prospective follow-up study enrolled 808 LBW neonates from March 2017 to February 2019. Sex-specific birthweight for gestational age percentile was constructed using Intergrowth 21<jats:sup>st<\/jats:sup>charts. Mortality patterns by birthweight for-gestational-age-specific survival curves were compared using the log-rank test and Kaplan-Meier survival curves. A random-effects frailty survival model was employed to identify predictors of time to death.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"sec003\"><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>Among the 808 newborns, the birthweight distribution was 3.2% &lt;1000 g, 28.3% &lt;1500 g, and 68.1% &lt;2000 g, respectively. Birthweight for gestational age categories were 40.0% both preterm and small for gestational age (SGA), 20.4% term SGA, 35.4% appropriate weight for gestational age, and 4.2% large for gestational age (LGA). The sample included 242 deaths, of which 47.5% were both preterm and SGA. The incidence rate of mortality was 16.17\/1000 (95% CI 14.26\u201318.34) neonatal-days of observation.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Neonatal characteristics independently related to increased risk of time-to-death were male sex (adjusted hazards ratio [AHR] 3.21 95% CI 1.33\u20137.76), born preterm (AHR 8.56 95% CI 1.59\u201346.14), having been diagnosed with a complication (AHR 4.68 95% CI 1.49\u201314.76); some maternal characteristics and newborn care practices (like lack of effective KMC, AHR 3.54 95% CI 1.14\u201311.02) were also significantly associated with time-to-death.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"sec004\"><jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title><jats:p>High mortality rates were measured for low birthweight neonates\u2013especially those both preterm and SGA births\u2013even in the context of tertiary care. 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