What is the difference in mortality rate, infant, female between Ecuador and Iran?

0.3 per 1,000 live births, with Iran ahead.

How many years of comparable data are there for Ecuador and Iran?

54 years are reported by both, from 1971 to 2024.

Where does this data come from?

UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation, UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), published as Mortality rate, infant, female (per 1,000 live births). Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

Ecuador vs Iran: Mortality rate, infant, female (per 1,000 live births)

Ecuador

9.4 per 1,000 live births

in 2024

Iran

9.7 per 1,000 live births

in 2024

Ecuador rank

112th

Iran rank

109th

Mortality rate, infant, female (per 1,000 live births) over time

Ecuador
Iran

How they compare

Iran currently reports 9.7 per 1,000 live births against 9.4 per 1,000 live births in Ecuador, a difference of 0.3 per 1,000 live births.

Across all 54 years both countries report, Iran has been ahead every year.

Ecuador ranks 112th and Iran ranks 109th of 197 countries.

Iran has averaged higher in every one of the 6 decades both report.

Head to head by decade

Decade	Ecuador	Iran	Difference	Ahead
1970s	77.16 per 1,000 live births	117.93 per 1,000 live births	40.78 per 1,000 live births	Iran
1980s	49.24 per 1,000 live births	65.76 per 1,000 live births	16.52 per 1,000 live births	Iran
1990s	28.85 per 1,000 live births	39.52 per 1,000 live births	10.67 per 1,000 live births	Iran
2000s	16.97 per 1,000 live births	23.56 per 1,000 live births	6.59 per 1,000 live births	Iran
2010s	11.43 per 1,000 live births	13.71 per 1,000 live births	2.28 per 1,000 live births	Iran
2020s	9.6 per 1,000 live births	10.4 per 1,000 live births	0.8 per 1,000 live births	Iran

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher mortality rate, infant, female, Ecuador or Iran?: Iran, at 9.7 per 1,000 live births against 9.4 per 1,000 live births in Ecuador as of 2024.
What is the difference in mortality rate, infant, female between Ecuador and Iran?: 0.3 per 1,000 live births, with Iran ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Ecuador and Iran?: 54 years are reported by both, from 1971 to 2024.
How do Ecuador and Iran rank globally for mortality rate, infant, female?: Ecuador ranks 112th and Iran ranks 109th of 197 countries.
Where does this data come from?: UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation, UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), published as Mortality rate, infant, female (per 1,000 live births). Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

Individual pages

Share, cite or embed this page

Cite this page

Ecuador vs Iran: Mortality rate, infant, female. Statizoid, drawing on UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation, UN Children's Fund (UNICEF). Retrieved 11 November 2026, from https://health.statizoid.com/compare/mortality-rate-infant-female-per-1-000-live-births/ecuador/iran-islamic-rep/

Embed or link this data

Paste this into a page to link back to these figures. The data itself is free to reuse under CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data); please keep the attribution.

<a href="https://health.statizoid.com/compare/mortality-rate-infant-female-per-1-000-live-births/ecuador/iran-islamic-rep/">Ecuador vs Iran: Mortality rate, infant, female</a> — Statizoid

About this data

Indicator: Mortality rate, infant, female (per 1,000 live births)
Unit: per 1,000 live births
Source: UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation, UN Children's Fund (UNICEF)
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage: 244 places, 13,515 data points, 1960–2024
Last refreshed: 29 October 2026

Infant mortality rate, female is the number of female infants dying before reaching one year of age, per 1,000 female live births in a given year.