Chad vs Nigeria: Child mortality rate

Chad

9.73 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Nigeria

11.56 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Chad rank

4th

Nigeria rank

1st

Child mortality rate over time

Chad
Nigeria

How they compare

Nigeria currently reports 11.56 deaths per 100 live births against 9.73 deaths per 100 live births in Chad, a difference of 1.83 deaths per 100 live births.

That makes Nigeria's figure about 1.2 times Chad's.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 63 shared years of data; in 1962 it was Nigeria ahead.

Chad ranks 4th and Nigeria ranks 1st 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.