Ethiopia vs Namibia: Child mortality rate

Ethiopia

4.45 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Namibia

3.95 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Ethiopia rank

36th

Namibia rank

38th

Child mortality rate over time

Ethiopia
Namibia

How they compare

Ethiopia currently reports 4.45 deaths per 100 live births against 3.95 deaths per 100 live births in Namibia, a difference of 0.5 deaths per 100 live births.

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

Across all 58 years both countries report, Ethiopia has been ahead every year.

Ethiopia ranks 36th 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.