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.

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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.