Niger vs Nigeria: Child mortality rate

Niger

11.07 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Nigeria

11.56 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Niger rank

2nd

Nigeria rank

1st

Child mortality rate over time

Niger
Nigeria

How they compare

Nigeria currently reports 11.56 deaths per 100 live births against 11.07 deaths per 100 live births in Niger, a difference of 0.49 deaths per 100 live births.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 58 shared years of data; in 1967 it was Niger ahead.

Niger ranks 2nd and Nigeria ranks 1st of 200 countries.

Individual pages

Child mortality rate in Niger
Child mortality rate in Nigeria
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.