Ecuador vs Mexico: Child mortality rate

Ecuador

1.29 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Mexico

1.31 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Ecuador rank

108th

Mexico rank

107th

Child mortality rate over time

Ecuador
Mexico

How they compare

Mexico currently reports 1.31 deaths per 100 live births against 1.29 deaths per 100 live births in Ecuador, a difference of 0.02 deaths per 100 live births.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 70 shared years of data; in 1955 it was Ecuador ahead.

Ecuador ranks 108th and Mexico ranks 107th of 200 countries.

Individual pages

Child mortality rate in Ecuador
Child mortality rate in Mexico
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.