Statizoid

Niger vs Nigeria: Infant mortality rate

Niger
6.56 deaths per 100 live births
in 2024
Nigeria
6.98 deaths per 100 live births
in 2024
Niger rank
3rd
Nigeria rank
2nd

Infant mortality rate over time

  • Niger
  • Nigeria
5101520196419942024

How they compare

Nigeria currently reports 6.98 deaths per 100 live births against 6.56 deaths per 100 live births in Niger, a difference of 0.4149 deaths per 100 live births.

That makes Nigeria's figure about 1.1 times Niger's.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 56 shared years of data; in 1969 it was Nigeria ahead.

Niger ranks 3rd and Nigeria ranks 2nd 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

The estimated number of deaths of children aged under one year, per 100 live births .