Chad vs Nigeria: Child mortality vs. share in extreme poverty

Chad

9.73 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Nigeria

11.56 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Chad rank

4th

Nigeria rank

1st

Child mortality vs. share in extreme poverty over time

Chad
Nigeria

How they compare

Nigeria currently reports 11.56 deaths per 100 live births against 9.73 deaths per 100 live births in Chad, a difference of 1.84 deaths per 100 live births.

That makes Nigeria's figure about 1.2 times Chad's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 45 shared years of data; in 1980 it was Chad ahead.

Chad ranks 4th and Nigeria ranks 1st of 199 countries.

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About this data

Indicator: Child mortality vs. share in extreme poverty
Unit: deaths per 100 live births
Source: United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (2025) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 199 places, 8,896 data points, 1980–2024
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

The estimated number of deaths of children aged under five years, per 100 live births .