Guinea vs Lesotho: Infant mortality rate

Guinea

5.98 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Lesotho

5.63 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Guinea rank

7th

Lesotho rank

10th

Infant mortality rate over time

Guinea
Lesotho

How they compare

Guinea currently reports 5.98 deaths per 100 live births against 5.63 deaths per 100 live births in Lesotho, a difference of 0.3481 deaths per 100 live births.

That makes Guinea's figure about 1.1 times Lesotho's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 73 shared years of data; in 1952 it was Guinea ahead.

Guinea ranks 7th and Lesotho ranks 10th 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 .