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Benin vs Guinea-Bissau: Child mortality

Benin
7.47 deaths per 100 live births
in 2024
Guinea-Bissau
6.73 deaths per 100 live births
in 2024
Benin rank
12th
Guinea-Bissau rank
15th

Child mortality over time

  • Benin
  • Guinea-Bissau
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How they compare

Benin currently reports 7.47 deaths per 100 live births against 6.73 deaths per 100 live births in Guinea-Bissau, a difference of 0.7413 deaths per 100 live births.

That makes Benin's figure about 1.1 times Guinea-Bissau's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 225 shared years of data; in 1800 it was Benin ahead.

Benin ranks 12th and Guinea-Bissau ranks 15th 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
Last refreshed

The estimated share of newborns who die before reaching the age of five.