Japan vs Norway: Mortality rate, infant, female
Japan
1.7 per 1,000 live births
in 2024
Norway
1.8 per 1,000 live births
in 2024
Japan rank
191st
Norway rank
188th
Mortality rate, infant, female over time
- Japan
- Norway
How they compare
Norway currently reports 1.8 per 1,000 live births against 1.7 per 1,000 live births in Japan, a difference of 0.1 per 1,000 live births.
That makes Norway's figure about 1.1 times Japan's.
The two have swapped places 1 time across 65 shared years of data; in 1960 it was Japan ahead.
Japan ranks 191st and Norway ranks 188th of 197 countries.
Across the 7 decades both report, Japan averaged higher in 1 and Norway in 6.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Japan | Norway | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 18.63 per 1,000 live births | 14.02 per 1,000 live births | 4.61 per 1,000 live births | Japan |
| 1970s | 9.09 per 1,000 live births | 9.21 per 1,000 live births | 0.12 per 1,000 live births | Norway |
| 1980s | 5.24 per 1,000 live births | 7.08 per 1,000 live births | 1.84 per 1,000 live births | Norway |
| 1990s | 3.78 per 1,000 live births | 4.53 per 1,000 live births | 0.75 per 1,000 live births | Norway |
| 2000s | 2.62 per 1,000 live births | 2.99 per 1,000 live births | 0.37 per 1,000 live births | Norway |
| 2010s | 1.96 per 1,000 live births | 2.04 per 1,000 live births | 0.08 per 1,000 live births | Norway |
| 2020s | 1.7 per 1,000 live births | 1.76 per 1,000 live births | 0.06 per 1,000 live births | Norway |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher mortality rate, infant, female, Japan or Norway?
- Norway, at 1.8 per 1,000 live births against 1.7 per 1,000 live births in Japan as of 2024.
- What is the difference in mortality rate, infant, female between Japan and Norway?
- 0.1 per 1,000 live births, with Norway ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Japan and Norway?
- 65 years are reported by both, from 1960 to 2024.
- How do Japan and Norway rank globally for mortality rate, infant, female?
- Japan ranks 191st and Norway ranks 188th 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.
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About this data
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.