Benin vs Guinea-Bissau: Child mortality rate

Benin
7.47 deaths per 100 live births
in 2024
Guinea-Bissau
6.73 deaths per 100 live births
in 2024
Benin rank
12th
Guinea-Bissau rank
15th

Child mortality rate over time

  • Benin
  • Guinea-Bissau
10203040194519842024

How they compare

Benin currently reports 7.47 deaths per 100 live births against 6.73 deaths per 100 live births in Guinea-Bissau, a difference of 0.7413 deaths per 100 live births.

That makes Benin's figure about 1.1 times Guinea-Bissau's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 40 shared years of data; in 1985 it was Guinea-Bissau ahead.

Benin ranks 12th and Guinea-Bissau ranks 15th of 199 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Child mortality rate
Unit
deaths per 100 live births
Source
United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (2025) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
199 places, 13,255 data points, 1931–2024
Last refreshed

The estimated number of deaths of children aged under five years, per 100 live births .