Botswana vs Gabon: Child mortality rate

Botswana

3.33 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Gabon

3.26 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Botswana rank

55th

Gabon rank

56th

Child mortality rate over time

Botswana
Gabon

How they compare

Botswana currently reports 3.33 deaths per 100 live births against 3.26 deaths per 100 live births in Gabon, a difference of 0.07 deaths per 100 live births.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 71 shared years of data; in 1954 it was Gabon ahead.

Botswana ranks 55th and Gabon ranks 56th of 200 countries.

Individual pages

Child mortality rate in Botswana
Child mortality rate in Gabon
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.