Nigeria vs Somalia: Infant mortality rate by sex

Nigeria

6.32 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Somalia

6 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Nigeria rank

2nd

Somalia rank

4th

Infant mortality rate by sex over time

Nigeria
Somalia

How they compare

Nigeria currently reports 6.32 deaths per 100 live births against 6 deaths per 100 live births in Somalia, a difference of 0.3214 deaths per 100 live births.

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

The two have swapped places 1 time across 42 shared years of data; in 1983 it was Somalia ahead.

Nigeria ranks 2nd and Somalia ranks 4th of 199 countries.

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About this data

Indicator: Infant mortality rate by sex
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, 12,987 data points, 1950–2024
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

The estimated number of deaths of female children aged under one year, per 100 live births .