What is the difference in child mortality between Brunei and El Salvador?

0.0056 deaths per 100 live births, with El Salvador ahead.

How many years of comparable data are there for Brunei and El Salvador?

225 years are reported by both, from 1800 to 2024.

Where does this data come from?

Gapminder (2015); UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (2025) – processed by Our World in Data, published as Child mortality. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

Brunei vs El Salvador: Child mortality

Brunei

0.9944 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

El Salvador

1 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Brunei rank

124th

El Salvador rank

123rd

Child mortality over time

Brunei
El Salvador

How they compare

El Salvador currently reports 1 deaths per 100 live births against 0.9944 deaths per 100 live births in Brunei, a difference of 0.0056 deaths per 100 live births.

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

Brunei ranks 124th and El Salvador ranks 123rd of 203 countries.

El Salvador has averaged higher in every one of the 23 decades both report.

Head to head by decade

Decade	Brunei	El Salvador	Difference	Ahead
1800s	45.47 deaths per 100 live births	46.16 deaths per 100 live births	0.691 deaths per 100 live births	El Salvador
1810s	45.47 deaths per 100 live births	46.16 deaths per 100 live births	0.691 deaths per 100 live births	El Salvador
1820s	45.47 deaths per 100 live births	46.16 deaths per 100 live births	0.691 deaths per 100 live births	El Salvador
1830s	45.47 deaths per 100 live births	46.16 deaths per 100 live births	0.691 deaths per 100 live births	El Salvador
1840s	45.47 deaths per 100 live births	46.16 deaths per 100 live births	0.691 deaths per 100 live births	El Salvador
1850s	45.47 deaths per 100 live births	46.16 deaths per 100 live births	0.691 deaths per 100 live births	El Salvador
1860s	45.47 deaths per 100 live births	46.16 deaths per 100 live births	0.691 deaths per 100 live births	El Salvador
1870s	45.47 deaths per 100 live births	46.16 deaths per 100 live births	0.691 deaths per 100 live births	El Salvador
1880s	45.47 deaths per 100 live births	46.16 deaths per 100 live births	0.691 deaths per 100 live births	El Salvador
1890s	45.45 deaths per 100 live births	46.14 deaths per 100 live births	0.6909 deaths per 100 live births	El Salvador
1900s	45.11 deaths per 100 live births	45.8 deaths per 100 live births	0.686 deaths per 100 live births	El Salvador
1910s	40.99 deaths per 100 live births	44.86 deaths per 100 live births	3.87 deaths per 100 live births	El Salvador
1920s	32.02 deaths per 100 live births	43.78 deaths per 100 live births	11.76 deaths per 100 live births	El Salvador
1930s	24.33 deaths per 100 live births	37.48 deaths per 100 live births	13.16 deaths per 100 live births	El Salvador
1940s	22.27 deaths per 100 live births	26.57 deaths per 100 live births	4.3 deaths per 100 live births	El Salvador
1950s	14.34 deaths per 100 live births	21.25 deaths per 100 live births	6.9 deaths per 100 live births	El Salvador
1960s	6.72 deaths per 100 live births	18.18 deaths per 100 live births	11.46 deaths per 100 live births	El Salvador
1970s	3.66 deaths per 100 live births	13.67 deaths per 100 live births	10.01 deaths per 100 live births	El Salvador
1980s	1.7 deaths per 100 live births	8.56 deaths per 100 live births	6.86 deaths per 100 live births	El Salvador
1990s	1.22 deaths per 100 live births	4.61 deaths per 100 live births	3.38 deaths per 100 live births	El Salvador
2000s	0.9742 deaths per 100 live births	2.51 deaths per 100 live births	1.54 deaths per 100 live births	El Salvador
2010s	1.04 deaths per 100 live births	1.51 deaths per 100 live births	0.4636 deaths per 100 live births	El Salvador
2020s	1.02 deaths per 100 live births	1.08 deaths per 100 live births	0.0687 deaths per 100 live births	El Salvador

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher child mortality, Brunei or El Salvador?: El Salvador, at 1 deaths per 100 live births against 0.9944 deaths per 100 live births in Brunei as of 2024.
What is the difference in child mortality between Brunei and El Salvador?: 0.0056 deaths per 100 live births, with El Salvador ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Brunei and El Salvador?: 225 years are reported by both, from 1800 to 2024.
How do Brunei and El Salvador rank globally for child mortality?: Brunei ranks 124th and El Salvador ranks 123rd of 203 countries.
Where does this data come from?: Gapminder (2015); UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (2025) – processed by Our World in Data, published as Child mortality. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

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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: 28 August 2026

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