Botswana vs Burundi: Infant mortality rate

Botswana

3.21 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Burundi

3.05 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Botswana rank

43rd

Burundi rank

45th

Infant mortality rate over time

Botswana
Burundi

How they compare

Botswana currently reports 3.21 deaths per 100 live births against 3.05 deaths per 100 live births in Burundi, a difference of 0.1603 deaths per 100 live births.

That makes Botswana's figure about 1.1 times Burundi's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 60 shared years of data; in 1965 it was Burundi ahead.

Botswana ranks 43rd and Burundi ranks 45th 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: 07 August 2026

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