What is the difference in mortality rate, infant, male between Timor-Leste and Zambia?

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

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

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

Timor-Leste vs Zambia: Mortality rate, infant, male

Timor-Leste

38.2 per 1,000 live births

in 2024

Zambia

38.1 per 1,000 live births

in 2024

Timor-Leste rank

34th

Zambia rank

35th

Mortality rate, infant, male over time

Timor-Leste
Zambia

How they compare

Timor-Leste currently reports 38.2 per 1,000 live births against 38.1 per 1,000 live births in Zambia, a difference of 0.1 per 1,000 live births.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 40 shared years of data; in 1985 it was Timor-Leste ahead.

Timor-Leste ranks 34th and Zambia ranks 35th of 197 countries.

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

Head to head by decade

Decade	Timor-Leste	Zambia	Difference	Ahead
1980s	192.52 per 1,000 live births	103.74 per 1,000 live births	88.78 per 1,000 live births	Timor-Leste
1990s	148.34 per 1,000 live births	104.87 per 1,000 live births	43.47 per 1,000 live births	Timor-Leste
2000s	73.26 per 1,000 live births	71.78 per 1,000 live births	1.48 per 1,000 live births	Timor-Leste
2010s	49.18 per 1,000 live births	46.58 per 1,000 live births	2.6 per 1,000 live births	Timor-Leste
2020s	40.4 per 1,000 live births	38.78 per 1,000 live births	1.62 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, male, Timor-Leste or Zambia?: Timor-Leste, at 38.2 per 1,000 live births against 38.1 per 1,000 live births in Zambia as of 2024.
What is the difference in mortality rate, infant, male between Timor-Leste and Zambia?: 0.1 per 1,000 live births, with Timor-Leste ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Timor-Leste and Zambia?: 40 years are reported by both, from 1985 to 2024.
How do Timor-Leste and Zambia rank globally for mortality rate, infant, male?: Timor-Leste ranks 34th and Zambia ranks 35th 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.