Nigeria vs Somalia: Child mortality rate

Nigeria

11.56 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Somalia

10.11 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Nigeria rank

1st

Somalia rank

3rd

Child mortality rate over time

Nigeria
Somalia

How they compare

Nigeria currently reports 11.56 deaths per 100 live births against 10.11 deaths per 100 live births in Somalia, a difference of 1.45 deaths per 100 live births.

That makes Nigeria's figure about 1.1 times Somalia's.

The two have swapped places 6 times across 43 shared years of data; in 1982 it was Nigeria ahead.

Nigeria ranks 1st and Somalia ranks 3rd 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.