Kuwait vs Uruguay: Child mortality rate

Kuwait

0.81 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Uruguay

0.74 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Kuwait rank

139th

Uruguay rank

141st

Child mortality rate over time

Kuwait
Uruguay

How they compare

Kuwait currently reports 0.81 deaths per 100 live births against 0.74 deaths per 100 live births in Uruguay, a difference of 0.07 deaths per 100 live births.

That makes Kuwait's figure about 1.1 times Uruguay's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 66 shared years of data; in 1959 it was Kuwait ahead.

Kuwait ranks 139th and Uruguay ranks 141st 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.