Kenya vs Rwanda: Child mortality rate

Kenya

3.88 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Rwanda

3.77 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Kenya rank

43rd

Rwanda rank

46th

Child mortality rate over time

Kenya
Rwanda

How they compare

Kenya currently reports 3.88 deaths per 100 live births against 3.77 deaths per 100 live births in Rwanda, a difference of 0.11 deaths per 100 live births.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 71 shared years of data; in 1954 it was Kenya ahead.

Kenya ranks 43rd and Rwanda ranks 46th of 200 countries.

Individual pages

Child mortality rate in Kenya
Child mortality rate in Rwanda
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.