Malawi vs Uganda: Child mortality rate

Malawi

4.88 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Uganda

4.87 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Malawi rank

30th

Uganda rank

31st

Child mortality rate over time

Malawi
Uganda

How they compare

Malawi currently reports 4.88 deaths per 100 live births against 4.87 deaths per 100 live births in Uganda, a difference of 0.01 deaths per 100 live births.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 64 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Malawi ahead.

Malawi ranks 30th and Uganda ranks 31st of 200 countries.

Individual pages

Child mortality rate in Malawi
Child mortality rate in Uganda
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.