Botswana vs Eritrea: Child mortality rate

Botswana

3.33 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Eritrea

3.43 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Botswana rank

55th

Eritrea rank

54th

Child mortality rate over time

Botswana
Eritrea

How they compare

Eritrea currently reports 3.43 deaths per 100 live births against 3.33 deaths per 100 live births in Botswana, a difference of 0.1 deaths per 100 live births.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 56 shared years of data; in 1969 it was Eritrea ahead.

Botswana ranks 55th and Eritrea ranks 54th of 200 countries.

Individual pages

Child mortality rate in Botswana
Child mortality rate in Eritrea
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.