Australia vs Germany: Child mortality rate

Australia
0.36 deaths per 100 live births
in 2024
Germany
0.37 deaths per 100 live births
in 2024
Australia rank
176th
Germany rank
173rd

Child mortality rate over time

  • Australia
  • Germany
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How they compare

Germany currently reports 0.37 deaths per 100 live births against 0.36 deaths per 100 live births in Australia, a difference of 0.01 deaths per 100 live births.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 130 shared years of data; in 1870 it was Germany ahead.

Australia ranks 176th and Germany ranks 173rd of 200 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Child mortality rate
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
200 places, 16,161 data points, 1751–2024
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The long-run estimated share of newborns who die before reaching the age of five.