Malawi vs Namibia: Infant mortality rate

Malawi

3.8 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Namibia

3.64 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Malawi rank

29th

Namibia rank

30th

Infant mortality rate over time

Malawi
Namibia

How they compare

Malawi currently reports 3.8 deaths per 100 live births against 3.64 deaths per 100 live births in Namibia, a difference of 0.1554 deaths per 100 live births.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 58 shared years of data; in 1967 it was Malawi ahead.

Malawi ranks 29th and Namibia ranks 30th of 199 countries.

Individual pages

Infant mortality rate in Malawi
Infant mortality rate in Namibia
Full country ranking

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 .