Benin vs Mali: Child mortality rate

Benin

7.47 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Mali

7.3 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Benin rank

12th

Mali rank

13th

Child mortality rate over time

Benin
Mali

How they compare

Benin currently reports 7.47 deaths per 100 live births against 7.3 deaths per 100 live births in Mali, a difference of 0.17 deaths per 100 live births.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 65 shared years of data; in 1960 it was Mali ahead.

Benin ranks 12th and Mali ranks 13th of 200 countries.

Individual pages

Child mortality rate in Benin
Child mortality rate in Mali
Full country ranking

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
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

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