Mexico vs Samoa: Infant mortality rate

Mexico

1.21 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Samoa

1.23 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Mexico rank

102nd

Samoa rank

101st

Infant mortality rate over time

Mexico
Samoa

How they compare

Samoa currently reports 1.23 deaths per 100 live births against 1.21 deaths per 100 live births in Mexico, a difference of 0.0174 deaths per 100 live births.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 72 shared years of data; in 1953 it was Mexico ahead.

Mexico ranks 102nd and Samoa ranks 101st of 199 countries.

Individual pages

Infant mortality rate in Mexico
Infant mortality rate in Samoa
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 .