Mexico vs Peru: Child mortality rate

Mexico

1.31 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Peru

1.29 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Mexico rank

107th

Peru rank

108th

Child mortality rate over time

Mexico
Peru

How they compare

Mexico currently reports 1.31 deaths per 100 live births against 1.29 deaths per 100 live births in Peru, a difference of 0.02 deaths per 100 live births.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 73 shared years of data; in 1952 it was Peru ahead.

Mexico ranks 107th and Peru ranks 108th of 200 countries.

Individual pages

Child mortality rate in Mexico
Child mortality rate in Peru
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.