Lesotho vs Togo: Child mortality rate

Lesotho

6 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Togo

5.61 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Lesotho rank

21st

Togo rank

23rd

Child mortality rate over time

Lesotho
Togo

How they compare

Lesotho currently reports 6 deaths per 100 live births against 5.61 deaths per 100 live births in Togo, a difference of 0.39 deaths per 100 live births.

That makes Lesotho's figure about 1.1 times Togo's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 75 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Togo ahead.

Lesotho ranks 21st and Togo ranks 23rd 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.