Barbados vs Oman: Child mortality rate

Barbados
0.98 deaths per 100 live births
in 2024
Oman
1.03 deaths per 100 live births
in 2024
Barbados rank
124th
Oman rank
121st

Child mortality rate over time

  • Barbados
  • Oman
0204060190619652024

How they compare

Oman currently reports 1.03 deaths per 100 live births against 0.98 deaths per 100 live births in Barbados, a difference of 0.05 deaths per 100 live births.

That makes Oman's figure about 1.1 times Barbados's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 66 shared years of data; in 1959 it was Oman ahead.

Barbados ranks 124th and Oman ranks 121st of 200 countries.

Across the 8 decades both report, Barbados averaged higher in 2 and Oman in 6.

Head to head by decade

Decade Barbados Oman Difference Ahead
1950s 9.21 deaths per 100 live births 38.85 deaths per 100 live births 29.64 deaths per 100 live births Oman
1960s 6.47 deaths per 100 live births 30.47 deaths per 100 live births 23.99 deaths per 100 live births Oman
1970s 3.78 deaths per 100 live births 17.66 deaths per 100 live births 13.88 deaths per 100 live births Oman
1980s 2.25 deaths per 100 live births 7.35 deaths per 100 live births 5.1 deaths per 100 live births Oman
1990s 1.55 deaths per 100 live births 2.67 deaths per 100 live births 1.12 deaths per 100 live births Oman
2000s 1.46 deaths per 100 live births 1.35 deaths per 100 live births 0.104 deaths per 100 live births Barbados
2010s 1.28 deaths per 100 live births 1.12 deaths per 100 live births 0.16 deaths per 100 live births Barbados
2020s 1.04 deaths per 100 live births 1.05 deaths per 100 live births 0.008 deaths per 100 live births Oman

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher child mortality rate, Barbados or Oman?
Oman, at 1.03 deaths per 100 live births against 0.98 deaths per 100 live births in Barbados as of 2024.
What is the difference in child mortality rate between Barbados and Oman?
0.05 deaths per 100 live births, with Oman ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Barbados and Oman?
66 years are reported by both, from 1959 to 2024.
How do Barbados and Oman rank globally for child mortality rate?
Barbados ranks 124th and Oman ranks 121st of 200 countries.
Where does this data come from?
Gapminder (2015); UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (2025) – processed by Our World in Data, published as Child mortality rate. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

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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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Long-run estimated share of newborns who die before reaching the age of five.