Congo vs Eritrea: Infant mortality rate

Congo

2.7 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Eritrea

2.47 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Congo rank

54th

Eritrea rank

56th

Infant mortality rate over time

Congo
Eritrea

How they compare

Congo currently reports 2.7 deaths per 100 live births against 2.47 deaths per 100 live births in Eritrea, a difference of 0.2279 deaths per 100 live births.

That makes Congo's figure about 1.1 times Eritrea's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 50 shared years of data; in 1975 it was Eritrea ahead.

Congo ranks 54th and Eritrea ranks 56th 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 .