What is the difference in child mortality rate between Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea?

0.32 deaths per 100 live births, with Equatorial Guinea ahead.

How many years of comparable data are there for Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea?

43 years are reported by both, from 1982 to 2024.

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.

Cameroon vs Equatorial Guinea: Child mortality rate

Cameroon

6.48 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Equatorial Guinea

6.8 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Cameroon rank

16th

Equatorial Guinea rank

14th

Child mortality rate over time

Cameroon
Equatorial Guinea

How they compare

Equatorial Guinea currently reports 6.8 deaths per 100 live births against 6.48 deaths per 100 live births in Cameroon, a difference of 0.32 deaths per 100 live births.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 43 shared years of data; in 1982 it was Equatorial Guinea ahead.

Cameroon ranks 16th and Equatorial Guinea ranks 14th of 200 countries.

Equatorial Guinea has averaged higher in every one of the 5 decades both report.

Head to head by decade

Decade	Cameroon	Equatorial Guinea	Difference	Ahead
1980s	15 deaths per 100 live births	18.67 deaths per 100 live births	3.67 deaths per 100 live births	Equatorial Guinea
1990s	14.43 deaths per 100 live births	16.94 deaths per 100 live births	2.5 deaths per 100 live births	Equatorial Guinea
2000s	12.91 deaths per 100 live births	13.43 deaths per 100 live births	0.517 deaths per 100 live births	Equatorial Guinea
2010s	9.15 deaths per 100 live births	9.42 deaths per 100 live births	0.266 deaths per 100 live births	Equatorial Guinea
2020s	6.95 deaths per 100 live births	7.28 deaths per 100 live births	0.334 deaths per 100 live births	Equatorial Guinea

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher child mortality rate, Cameroon or Equatorial Guinea?: Equatorial Guinea, at 6.8 deaths per 100 live births against 6.48 deaths per 100 live births in Cameroon as of 2024.
What is the difference in child mortality rate between Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea?: 0.32 deaths per 100 live births, with Equatorial Guinea ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea?: 43 years are reported by both, from 1982 to 2024.
How do Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea rank globally for child mortality rate?: Cameroon ranks 16th and Equatorial Guinea ranks 14th 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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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: 18 September 2026

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