Liberia vs Mali: Child mortality

Liberia

8.64 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Mali

7.3 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Liberia rank

10th

Mali rank

13th

Child mortality over time

Liberia
Mali

How they compare

Liberia currently reports 8.64 deaths per 100 live births against 7.3 deaths per 100 live births in Mali, a difference of 1.34 deaths per 100 live births.

That makes Liberia's figure about 1.2 times Mali's.

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

Liberia ranks 10th and Mali ranks 13th of 203 countries.

Individual pages

Child mortality in Liberia
Child mortality in Mali
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.