Netherlands vs Switzerland: Child mortality

Netherlands
0.3885 deaths per 100 live births
in 2024
Switzerland
0.3866 deaths per 100 live births
in 2024
Netherlands rank
171st
Switzerland rank
172nd

Child mortality over time

  • Netherlands
  • Switzerland
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How they compare

Netherlands currently reports 0.3885 deaths per 100 live births against 0.3866 deaths per 100 live births in Switzerland, a difference of 0.002 deaths per 100 live births.

The two have swapped places 19 times across 225 shared years of data; in 1800 it was Switzerland ahead.

Netherlands ranks 171st and Switzerland ranks 172nd of 203 countries.

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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
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The estimated share of newborns who die before reaching the age of five.