Denmark vs France: Child mortality rate

Denmark

0.4 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

France

0.43 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Denmark rank

168th

France rank

166th

Child mortality rate over time

Denmark
France

How they compare

France currently reports 0.43 deaths per 100 live births against 0.4 deaths per 100 live births in Denmark, a difference of 0.03 deaths per 100 live births.

That makes France's figure about 1.1 times Denmark's.

The two have swapped places 13 times across 190 shared years of data; in 1835 it was Denmark ahead.

Denmark ranks 168th and France ranks 166th 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.