Eswatini vs Namibia: Child mortality rate

Eswatini

4.51 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Namibia

3.95 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Eswatini rank

35th

Namibia rank

38th

Child mortality rate over time

Eswatini
Namibia

How they compare

Eswatini currently reports 4.51 deaths per 100 live births against 3.95 deaths per 100 live births in Namibia, a difference of 0.56 deaths per 100 live births.

That makes Eswatini's figure about 1.1 times Namibia's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 59 shared years of data; in 1960 it was Eswatini ahead.

Eswatini ranks 35th and Namibia ranks 38th 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.