Denmark vs Netherlands: Child mortality

Denmark

0.3955 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Netherlands

0.3885 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Denmark rank

169th

Netherlands rank

171st

Child mortality over time

Denmark
Netherlands

How they compare

Denmark currently reports 0.3955 deaths per 100 live births against 0.3885 deaths per 100 live births in Netherlands, a difference of 0.0069 deaths per 100 live births.

The two have swapped places 12 times across 225 shared years of data; in 1800 it was Denmark ahead.

Denmark ranks 169th and Netherlands ranks 171st of 203 countries.

Individual pages

Child mortality in Denmark
Child mortality in Netherlands
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.