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Nigeria vs South Sudan: Infant mortality rate

Nigeria
6.98 deaths per 100 live births
in 2024
South Sudan
7.19 deaths per 100 live births
in 2024
Nigeria rank
2nd
South Sudan rank
1st

Infant mortality rate over time

  • Nigeria
  • South Sudan
1020304050195419892024

How they compare

South Sudan currently reports 7.19 deaths per 100 live births against 6.98 deaths per 100 live births in Nigeria, a difference of 0.2098 deaths per 100 live births.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 61 shared years of data; in 1964 it was South Sudan ahead.

Nigeria ranks 2nd and South Sudan ranks 1st 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 .