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Lesotho vs Madagascar: Child mortality rate

Lesotho
6 deaths per 100 live births
in 2024
Madagascar
6.24 deaths per 100 live births
in 2024
Lesotho rank
21st
Madagascar rank
19th

Child mortality rate over time

  • Lesotho
  • Madagascar
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How they compare

Madagascar currently reports 6.24 deaths per 100 live births against 6 deaths per 100 live births in Lesotho, a difference of 0.24 deaths per 100 live births.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 60 shared years of data; in 1965 it was Madagascar ahead.

Lesotho ranks 21st and Madagascar ranks 19th 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.