Cyprus vs Malta: Child mortality rate

Cyprus

0.5 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Malta

0.53 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Cyprus rank

161st

Malta rank

159th

Child mortality rate over time

Cyprus
Malta

How they compare

Malta currently reports 0.53 deaths per 100 live births against 0.5 deaths per 100 live births in Cyprus, a difference of 0.03 deaths per 100 live births.

That makes Malta's figure about 1.1 times Cyprus's.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 56 shared years of data; in 1960 it was Malta ahead.

Cyprus ranks 161st and Malta ranks 159th 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.