Ecuador vs Peru: Child mortality

Ecuador

1.29 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Peru

1.29 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Ecuador rank

111th

Peru rank

110th

Child mortality over time

Ecuador
Peru

How they compare

Peru currently reports 1.29 deaths per 100 live births against 1.29 deaths per 100 live births in Ecuador, a difference of 0.0021 deaths per 100 live births.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 225 shared years of data; in 1800 it was Ecuador ahead.

Ecuador ranks 111th and Peru ranks 110th of 203 countries.

Individual pages

Child mortality in Ecuador
Child mortality in Peru
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.