What is the difference in mortality rate, infant, male between Liberia and Somalia?

1 per 1,000 live births, with Somalia ahead.

How many years of comparable data are there for Liberia and Somalia?

42 years are reported by both, from 1983 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, male (per 1,000 live births). Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

Liberia vs Somalia: Mortality rate, infant, male

Liberia

69.6 per 1,000 live births

in 2024

Somalia

70.6 per 1,000 live births

in 2024

Liberia rank

5th

Somalia rank

3rd

Mortality rate, infant, male over time

Liberia
Somalia

How they compare

Somalia currently reports 70.6 per 1,000 live births against 69.6 per 1,000 live births in Liberia, a difference of 1 per 1,000 live births.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 42 shared years of data; in 1983 it was Liberia ahead.

Liberia ranks 5th and Somalia ranks 3rd of 197 countries.

Across the 5 decades both report, Liberia averaged higher in 2 and Somalia in 3.

Head to head by decade

Decade	Liberia	Somalia	Difference	Ahead
1980s	172.01 per 1,000 live births	114.24 per 1,000 live births	57.77 per 1,000 live births	Liberia
1990s	171.5 per 1,000 live births	145.49 per 1,000 live births	26.01 per 1,000 live births	Liberia
2000s	103.88 per 1,000 live births	109.33 per 1,000 live births	5.45 per 1,000 live births	Somalia
2010s	73.29 per 1,000 live births	109.84 per 1,000 live births	36.55 per 1,000 live births	Somalia
2020s	69.9 per 1,000 live births	78.56 per 1,000 live births	8.66 per 1,000 live births	Somalia

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher mortality rate, infant, male, Liberia or Somalia?: Somalia, at 70.6 per 1,000 live births against 69.6 per 1,000 live births in Liberia as of 2024.
What is the difference in mortality rate, infant, male between Liberia and Somalia?: 1 per 1,000 live births, with Somalia ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Liberia and Somalia?: 42 years are reported by both, from 1983 to 2024.
How do Liberia and Somalia rank globally for mortality rate, infant, male?: Liberia ranks 5th and Somalia ranks 3rd 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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Indicator: Mortality rate, infant, male (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, male is the number of male infants dying before reaching one year of age, per 1,000 male live births in a given year.