Statizoid

Madagascar vs Zimbabwe: Child mortality rate

Madagascar
6.24 deaths per 100 live births
in 2024
Zimbabwe
6.47 deaths per 100 live births
in 2024
Madagascar rank
19th
Zimbabwe rank
17th

Child mortality rate over time

  • Madagascar
  • Zimbabwe
51015202530195319882024

How they compare

Zimbabwe currently reports 6.47 deaths per 100 live births against 6.24 deaths per 100 live births in Madagascar, a difference of 0.23 deaths per 100 live births.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 60 shared years of data; in 1965 it was Madagascar ahead.

Madagascar ranks 19th and Zimbabwe ranks 17th 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.