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Nigeria vs Somalia: Infant mortality rate

Nigeria
6.98 deaths per 100 live births
in 2024
Somalia
6.54 deaths per 100 live births
in 2024
Nigeria rank
2nd
Somalia rank
4th

Infant mortality rate over time

  • Nigeria
  • Somalia
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How they compare

Nigeria currently reports 6.98 deaths per 100 live births against 6.54 deaths per 100 live births in Somalia, a difference of 0.4373 deaths per 100 live births.

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

The two have swapped places 3 times across 42 shared years of data; in 1983 it was Somalia ahead.

Nigeria ranks 2nd and Somalia ranks 4th 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 .