Cameroon vs Malawi: Infant mortality rate

Cameroon

4.02 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Malawi

3.8 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Cameroon rank

26th

Malawi rank

29th

Infant mortality rate over time

Cameroon
Malawi

How they compare

Cameroon currently reports 4.02 deaths per 100 live births against 3.8 deaths per 100 live births in Malawi, a difference of 0.2286 deaths per 100 live births.

That makes Cameroon's figure about 1.1 times Malawi's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 64 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Cameroon ahead.

Cameroon ranks 26th and Malawi ranks 29th 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 .