Global Rankings: Mortality Rate Infant ‰ (2024)

Rank	Country	Value
1	South Sudan	71.90
2	Nigeria	69.80
3	Niger	65.60
4	Somalia	65.40
5	Liberia	63.20
6	Zimbabwe	62.40
7	Guinea	59.80
8	Central African Republic	58.80
9	Congo, The Democratic Republic of the	56.40
10	Chad	56.30
11	Lesotho	56.30
12	Sierra Leone	54.60
13	Afghanistan	48.30
14	Pakistan	48.20
15	Equatorial Guinea	47.60
16	Mali	47.50
17	Benin	45.20
18	Côte d'Ivoire	44.80
19	Mozambique	43.70
20	Burkina Faso	43.60
21	Djibouti	43
22	Madagascar	43
23	Sudan	42.90
24	Eswatini	42.20
25	Guinea-Bissau	42.10
26	Cameroon	40.20
27	Haiti	39
28	Kiribati	38.80
29	Malawi	38
30	Namibia	36.40
31	Uganda	35.90
32	Comoros	35
33	Togo	34.80
34	Timor-Leste	34.60
35	Zambia	34.60
36	Ethiopia	34.50
37	Kenya	34.20
38	Yemen	33.80
39	Dominica	33.30
40	Myanmar	32.80
41	Gambia	32.70
42	Angola	32.10
43	Botswana	32.10
44	Papua New Guinea	31.30
45	Burundi	30.50
46	Turkmenistan	30.40
47	Mauritania	30.20
48	Rwanda	29.40
49	Senegal	28.90
50	Tanzania, United Republic of	28.70
51	Dominican Republic	27.70
52	Ghana	27.50
53	Lao People's Democratic Republic	27.20
54	Congo	27
55	Gabon	25.90
56	Eritrea	24.70
57	Bangladesh	24.40
58	South Africa	24.20
59	Fiji	23.50
60	Tajikistan	23.50
61	India	23.30
62	Guyana	23.20
63	Marshall Islands	22.70
64	Nepal	22.20
65	Philippines	21.70
66	Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of	21.20
67	Egypt	20.80
68	Micronesia, Federated States of	20.30
69	Iraq	20.10
70	Algeria	19.50
71	Palau	18.60
72	Syrian Arab Republic	17.70
73	Guatemala	17.20
74	Trinidad and Tobago	17
75	Palestine, State of	17
76	Tuvalu	16.50
77	Cambodia	16.40
78	Grenada	16.40
79	Jamaica	16.40
80	Solomon Islands	16.40
81	Saint Lucia	15.80
82	Lebanon	15.30
83	Indonesia	15.20
84	Moldova, Republic of	15.10
85	Kyrgyzstan	14.80
86	Suriname	14.80
87	Morocco	14.70
88	Paraguay	14.50
89	Vanuatu	14.40
90	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	14.20
91	Saint Kitts and Nevis	13.90
92	Mauritius	13.80
93	Bhutan	13.70
94	Korea, Democratic People's Republic of	13.30
95	Seychelles	12.90
96	Honduras	12.80
97	Uzbekistan	12.80
98	Azerbaijan	12.50
99	Brazil	12.30
100	Samoa	12.30
101	Mexico	12.10
102	Jordan	12
103	Panama	12
104	Viet Nam	12
105	Virgin Islands, British	11.40
106	Mongolia	11.20
107	Bahamas	11.10
108	Peru	11
109	Ecuador	10.90
110	Belize	10.80
111	Cabo Verde	10.60
112	Colombia	10.50
113	Iran, Islamic Republic of	10.30
114	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	10.20
115	Tunisia	9.70
116	Nicaragua	9.40
117	Sao Tome and Principe	9.20
118	Barbados	9.10
119	Costa Rica	9.10
120	El Salvador	8.80
121	Brunei Darussalam	8.60
122	Armenia	8.50
123	Albania	8.30
124	Oman	8.30
125	Argentina	8
126	Türkiye	8
127	Libya	7.90
128	Tonga	7.80
129	Nauru	7.70
130	Thailand	7.70
131	Ukraine	7.60
132	Georgia	7.50
133	Kazakhstan	7.40
134	Bahrain	7.30
135	Antigua and Barbuda	7
136	Kuwait	7
137	Malaysia	7
138	Cuba	6.80
139	Uruguay	6.20
140	Romania	6
141	Chile	5.80
142	Bosnia and Herzegovina	5.50
143	United States	5.50
144	Slovakia	5.30
145	Sri Lanka	5.20
146	Qatar	4.80
147	Canada	4.70
148	Maldives	4.70
149	Malta	4.70
150	Saudi Arabia	4.70
151	Bulgaria	4.60
152	Serbia	4.60
153	China	4.10
154	Croatia	4.10
155	Cyprus	4.10
156	Russian Federation	4.10
157	United Kingdom	4.10
158	New Zealand	4
159	United Arab Emirates	3.80
160	Poland	3.60
161	Denmark	3.50
162	France	3.40
163	Ireland	3.40
164	Netherlands	3.40
165	Switzerland	3.40
166	Greece	3.20
167	Australia	3.10
168	Belgium	3.10
169	Germany	3.10
170	Hungary	3.10
171	Turks and Caicos Islands	3
172	Austria	2.80
173	Lithuania	2.80
174	Israel	2.70
175	Portugal	2.70
176	Spain	2.60
177	North Macedonia	2.50
178	Andorra	2.40
179	Italy	2.30
180	Korea, Republic of	2.30
181	Latvia	2.20
182	Monaco	2.20
183	Singapore	2.20
184	Czechia	2.10
185	Iceland	2.10
186	Norway	2
187	Sweden	2
188	Finland	1.90
189	Luxembourg	1.90
190	Montenegro	1.90
191	Belarus	1.80
192	Japan	1.80
193	Slovenia	1.80
194	Estonia	1.50
195	San Marino	1.20

About This Indicator

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

Data source: World Bank Development Indicators