Statizoid

Chad vs Nigeria: Child mortality

Chad
9.73 deaths per 100 live births
in 2024
Nigeria
11.56 deaths per 100 live births
in 2024
Chad rank
4th
Nigeria rank
1st

Child mortality over time

  • Chad
  • Nigeria
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How they compare

Nigeria currently reports 11.56 deaths per 100 live births against 9.73 deaths per 100 live births in Chad, a difference of 1.84 deaths per 100 live births.

That makes Nigeria's figure about 1.2 times Chad's.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 225 shared years of data; in 1800 it was Nigeria ahead.

Chad ranks 4th and Nigeria ranks 1st 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.