What is the difference in mortality rate, infant, female between Kenya and Timor-Leste?

0.5 per 1,000 live births, with Timor-Leste ahead.

How many years of comparable data are there for Kenya and Timor-Leste?

40 years are reported by both, from 1985 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.

Kenya vs Timor-Leste: Mortality rate, infant, female

Kenya

30.4 per 1,000 live births

in 2024

Timor-Leste

30.9 per 1,000 live births

in 2024

Kenya rank

37th

Timor-Leste rank

36th

Mortality rate, infant, female over time

Kenya
Timor-Leste

How they compare

Timor-Leste currently reports 30.9 per 1,000 live births against 30.4 per 1,000 live births in Kenya, a difference of 0.5 per 1,000 live births.

Across all 40 years both countries report, Timor-Leste has been ahead every year.

Kenya ranks 37th and Timor-Leste ranks 36th of 197 countries.

Timor-Leste has averaged higher in every one of the 5 decades both report.

Head to head by decade

Decade	Kenya	Timor-Leste	Difference	Ahead
1980s	58.56 per 1,000 live births	176.14 per 1,000 live births	117.58 per 1,000 live births	Timor-Leste
1990s	63.32 per 1,000 live births	135.09 per 1,000 live births	71.77 per 1,000 live births	Timor-Leste
2000s	46.48 per 1,000 live births	62.78 per 1,000 live births	16.3 per 1,000 live births	Timor-Leste
2010s	35.18 per 1,000 live births	40.39 per 1,000 live births	5.21 per 1,000 live births	Timor-Leste
2020s	31.54 per 1,000 live births	32.76 per 1,000 live births	1.22 per 1,000 live births	Timor-Leste

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher mortality rate, infant, female, Kenya or Timor-Leste?: Timor-Leste, at 30.9 per 1,000 live births against 30.4 per 1,000 live births in Kenya as of 2024.
What is the difference in mortality rate, infant, female between Kenya and Timor-Leste?: 0.5 per 1,000 live births, with Timor-Leste ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Kenya and Timor-Leste?: 40 years are reported by both, from 1985 to 2024.
How do Kenya and Timor-Leste rank globally for mortality rate, infant, female?: Kenya ranks 37th and Timor-Leste ranks 36th 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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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: 03 September 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.