Chad vs Democratic Republic of Congo: Infant mortality rate

Chad

5.63 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Democratic Republic of Congo

5.64 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Chad rank

11th

Democratic Republic of Congo rank

9th

Infant mortality rate over time

Chad
Democratic Republic of Congo

How they compare

Democratic Republic of Congo currently reports 5.64 deaths per 100 live births against 5.63 deaths per 100 live births in Chad, a difference of 0.0161 deaths per 100 live births.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 56 shared years of data; in 1969 it was Chad ahead.

Chad ranks 11th and Democratic Republic of Congo ranks 9th 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 .