Italy vs Latvia: Mortality rate, infant, male
Italy
2.5 per 1,000 live births
in 2024
Latvia
2.3 per 1,000 live births
in 2024
Italy rank
181st
Latvia rank
184th
Mortality rate, infant, male over time
- Italy
- Latvia
How they compare
Italy currently reports 2.5 per 1,000 live births against 2.3 per 1,000 live births in Latvia, a difference of 0.2 per 1,000 live births.
That makes Italy's figure about 1.1 times Latvia's.
The two have swapped places 2 times across 65 shared years of data; in 1960 it was Italy ahead.
Italy ranks 181st and Latvia ranks 184th of 197 countries.
Across the 7 decades both report, Italy averaged higher in 2 and Latvia in 5.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Italy | Latvia | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 40.65 per 1,000 live births | 23.63 per 1,000 live births | 17.02 per 1,000 live births | Italy |
| 1970s | 24.34 per 1,000 live births | 18.85 per 1,000 live births | 5.49 per 1,000 live births | Italy |
| 1980s | 12.26 per 1,000 live births | 15.6 per 1,000 live births | 3.34 per 1,000 live births | Latvia |
| 1990s | 7.28 per 1,000 live births | 16 per 1,000 live births | 8.72 per 1,000 live births | Latvia |
| 2000s | 4.26 per 1,000 live births | 9.74 per 1,000 live births | 5.48 per 1,000 live births | Latvia |
| 2010s | 3.24 per 1,000 live births | 5 per 1,000 live births | 1.76 per 1,000 live births | Latvia |
| 2020s | 2.58 per 1,000 live births | 2.8 per 1,000 live births | 0.22 per 1,000 live births | Latvia |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher mortality rate, infant, male, Italy or Latvia?
- Italy, at 2.5 per 1,000 live births against 2.3 per 1,000 live births in Latvia as of 2024.
- What is the difference in mortality rate, infant, male between Italy and Latvia?
- 0.2 per 1,000 live births, with Italy ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Italy and Latvia?
- 65 years are reported by both, from 1960 to 2024.
- How do Italy and Latvia rank globally for mortality rate, infant, male?
- Italy ranks 181st and Latvia ranks 184th 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, male (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, male is the number of male infants dying before reaching one year of age, per 1,000 male live births in a given year.