Kuwait vs Malaysia: Child mortality rate

Kuwait

0.81 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Malaysia

0.83 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Kuwait rank

139th

Malaysia rank

137th

Child mortality rate over time

Kuwait
Malaysia

How they compare

Malaysia currently reports 0.83 deaths per 100 live births against 0.81 deaths per 100 live births in Kuwait, a difference of 0.02 deaths per 100 live births.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 66 shared years of data; in 1959 it was Kuwait ahead.

Kuwait ranks 139th and Malaysia ranks 137th of 200 countries.

Individual pages

Child mortality rate in Kuwait
Child mortality rate in Malaysia
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.