Chile vs Uruguay: Child mortality rate

Chile

0.68 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Uruguay

0.74 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Chile rank

144th

Uruguay rank

141st

Child mortality rate over time

Chile
Uruguay

How they compare

Uruguay currently reports 0.74 deaths per 100 live births against 0.68 deaths per 100 live births in Chile, a difference of 0.06 deaths per 100 live births.

That makes Uruguay's figure about 1.1 times Chile's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 103 shared years of data; in 1921 it was Chile ahead.

Chile ranks 144th and Uruguay ranks 141st 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.