Lesotho vs Sudan: Child mortality rate

Lesotho

6 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Sudan

6.16 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Lesotho rank

21st

Sudan rank

20th

Child mortality rate over time

Lesotho
Sudan

How they compare

Sudan currently reports 6.16 deaths per 100 live births against 6 deaths per 100 live births in Lesotho, a difference of 0.16 deaths per 100 live births.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 72 shared years of data; in 1953 it was Lesotho ahead.

Lesotho ranks 21st and Sudan ranks 20th of 200 countries.

Individual pages

Child mortality rate in Lesotho
Child mortality rate in Sudan
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.