Brazil vs Samoa: Child mortality rate

Brazil

1.42 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Samoa

1.49 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Brazil rank

101st

Samoa rank

100th

Child mortality rate over time

Brazil
Samoa

How they compare

Samoa currently reports 1.49 deaths per 100 live births against 1.42 deaths per 100 live births in Brazil, a difference of 0.07 deaths per 100 live births.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 85 shared years of data; in 1940 it was Brazil ahead.

Brazil ranks 101st and Samoa ranks 100th of 200 countries.

Individual pages

Child mortality rate in Brazil
Child mortality rate in Samoa
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.