Cape Verde vs Nicaragua: Child mortality

Cape Verde
1.11 deaths per 100 live births
in 2024
Nicaragua
1.12 deaths per 100 live births
in 2024
Cape Verde rank
120th
Nicaragua rank
119th

Child mortality over time

  • Cape Verde
  • Nicaragua
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How they compare

Nicaragua currently reports 1.12 deaths per 100 live births against 1.11 deaths per 100 live births in Cape Verde, a difference of 0.01 deaths per 100 live births.

The two have swapped places 10 times across 225 shared years of data; in 1800 it was Nicaragua ahead.

Cape Verde ranks 120th and Nicaragua ranks 119th 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.