Mauritius vs Samoa: Child mortality

Mauritius

1.54 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Samoa

1.49 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Mauritius rank

98th

Samoa rank

101st

Child mortality over time

Mauritius
Samoa

How they compare

Mauritius currently reports 1.54 deaths per 100 live births against 1.49 deaths per 100 live births in Samoa, a difference of 0.0505 deaths per 100 live births.

The two have swapped places 17 times across 225 shared years of data; in 1800 it was Samoa ahead.

Mauritius ranks 98th and Samoa ranks 101st of 203 countries.

Individual pages

Child mortality in Mauritius
Child mortality in Samoa
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.