Cameroon vs Mali: Child mortality rate

Cameroon
6.48 deaths per 100 live births
in 2024
Mali
7.3 deaths per 100 live births
in 2024
Cameroon rank
16th
Mali rank
13th

Child mortality rate over time

  • Cameroon
  • Mali
1020304050195319882024

How they compare

Mali currently reports 7.3 deaths per 100 live births against 6.48 deaths per 100 live births in Cameroon, a difference of 0.82 deaths per 100 live births.

That makes Mali's figure about 1.1 times Cameroon's.

Across all 65 years both countries report, Mali has been ahead every year.

Cameroon ranks 16th and Mali ranks 13th 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
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The long-run estimated share of newborns who die before reaching the age of five.