Benin vs Mali: Infant mortality rate

Benin
4.52 deaths per 100 live births
in 2024
Mali
4.75 deaths per 100 live births
in 2024
Benin rank
17th
Mali rank
16th

Infant mortality rate over time

  • Benin
  • Mali
5101520194519842024

How they compare

Mali currently reports 4.75 deaths per 100 live births against 4.52 deaths per 100 live births in Benin, a difference of 0.2333 deaths per 100 live births.

That makes Mali's figure about 1.1 times Benin's.

Across all 59 years both countries report, Mali has been ahead every year.

Benin ranks 17th and Mali ranks 16th of 199 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Infant mortality rate
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, 13,185 data points, 1931–2024
Last refreshed

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