Statizoid

India vs Nepal: Child mortality rate

India
2.66 deaths per 100 live births
in 2024
Nepal
2.51 deaths per 100 live births
in 2024
India rank
63rd
Nepal rank
66th

Child mortality rate over time

  • India
  • Nepal
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How they compare

India currently reports 2.66 deaths per 100 live births against 2.51 deaths per 100 live births in Nepal, a difference of 0.15 deaths per 100 live births.

That makes India's figure about 1.1 times Nepal's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 73 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Nepal ahead.

India ranks 63rd and Nepal ranks 66th 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
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The long-run estimated share of newborns who die before reaching the age of five.