Chad vs Niger: Child mortality

Chad

9.73 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Niger

11.07 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Chad rank

4th

Niger rank

2nd

Child mortality over time

Chad
Niger

How they compare

Niger currently reports 11.07 deaths per 100 live births against 9.73 deaths per 100 live births in Chad, a difference of 1.35 deaths per 100 live births.

That makes Niger's figure about 1.1 times Chad's.

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

Chad ranks 4th and Niger ranks 2nd of 203 countries.

Individual pages

Child mortality in Chad
Child mortality in Niger
Full country ranking

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: 07 August 2026

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