Congo vs Kenya: Child mortality rate

Congo

3.91 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Kenya

3.88 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Congo rank

40th

Kenya rank

43rd

Child mortality rate over time

Congo
Kenya

How they compare

Congo currently reports 3.91 deaths per 100 live births against 3.88 deaths per 100 live births in Kenya, a difference of 0.03 deaths per 100 live births.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 75 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Kenya ahead.

Congo ranks 40th and Kenya ranks 43rd of 200 countries.

Individual pages

Child mortality rate in Congo
Child mortality rate in Kenya
Full country ranking

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.