Lesotho vs Mozambique: Child mortality

Lesotho

6 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Mozambique

5.94 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Lesotho rank

21st

Mozambique rank

22nd

Child mortality over time

Lesotho
Mozambique

How they compare

Lesotho currently reports 6 deaths per 100 live births against 5.94 deaths per 100 live births in Mozambique, a difference of 0.0539 deaths per 100 live births.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 225 shared years of data; in 1800 it was Mozambique ahead.

Lesotho ranks 21st and Mozambique ranks 22nd of 203 countries.

Individual pages

Child mortality in Lesotho
Child mortality in Mozambique
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.