Statizoid

Benin vs Equatorial Guinea: Child mortality

Benin
7.47 deaths per 100 live births
in 2024
Equatorial Guinea
6.8 deaths per 100 live births
in 2024
Benin rank
12th
Equatorial Guinea rank
14th

Child mortality over time

  • Benin
  • Equatorial Guinea
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How they compare

Benin currently reports 7.47 deaths per 100 live births against 6.8 deaths per 100 live births in Equatorial Guinea, a difference of 0.678 deaths per 100 live births.

That makes Benin's figure about 1.1 times Equatorial Guinea's.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 225 shared years of data; in 1800 it was Equatorial Guinea ahead.

Benin ranks 12th and Equatorial Guinea ranks 14th of 203 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Child mortality
Unit
deaths per 100 live births
Source
Gapminder (2015); UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (2025) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
203 places, 42,924 data points, 1800–2024
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The estimated share of newborns who die before reaching the age of five.