Healthcare
Africa Still Struggles With High Infant Mortality Rates
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What we’re showing:
A ranking of the 15 countries with the highest infant mortality rates. Measured as the number of child deaths under the age of one per 1,000 live births in a given year.
Key Takeaway
Fourteen of the top 15 countries with the highest infant mortality rates are from Africa.
And noticeably, sub-Saharan African countries tend to do a lot worse than their northern counterparts.
While this is concerning, Africa’s infant mortality rate as a whole has improved tremendously in the last seven decades.
Between 1950–2024, the continent’s average infant mortality rate fell 73% to 41 deaths per 1,000 births.
Dataset
Rank | Country | Region | Infant Mortality Rate (2023) |
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1 | Afghanistan | South Asia | 103.1 |
2 | Somalia | Africa | 85.1 |
3 | Central African Republic | Africa | 81.7 |
4 | Equatorial Guinea | Africa | 77.9 |
5 | Sierra Leone | Africa | 72.3 |
6 | Niger | Africa | 65.5 |
7 | Chad | Africa | 64.0 |
8 | South Sudan | Africa | 61.6 |
9 | Mozambique | Africa | 59.8 |
10 | DRC | Africa | 59.1 |
11 | Mali | Africa | 59.0 |
12 | Angola | Africa | 57.2 |
13 | Liberia | Africa | 56.1 |
14 | Comoros | Africa | 56.0 |
15 | Nigeria | Africa | 55.2 |
16 | Benin | Africa | 54.3 |
17 | Cote d'Ivoire | Africa | 54.0 |
18 | Pakistan | South Asia | 52.7 |
19 | Mauritania | Africa | 50.0 |
20 | Guinea | Africa | 48.3 |
EU | Europe | 3.3 | |
U.S. | North America | 5.1 | |
World Avg | World | 28.0 |
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