What is the difference in mortality rate, infant between Bangladesh and Eritrea?

0.3 per 1,000 live births, with Eritrea ahead.

How many years of comparable data are there for Bangladesh and Eritrea?

50 years are reported by both, from 1975 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 (per 1,000 live births). Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

Bangladesh vs Eritrea: Mortality rate, infant

Bangladesh

24.4 per 1,000 live births

in 2024

Eritrea

24.7 per 1,000 live births

in 2024

Bangladesh rank

57th

Eritrea rank

56th

Mortality rate, infant over time

Bangladesh
Eritrea

How they compare

Eritrea currently reports 24.7 per 1,000 live births against 24.4 per 1,000 live births in Bangladesh, a difference of 0.3 per 1,000 live births.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 50 shared years of data; in 1975 it was Bangladesh ahead.

Bangladesh ranks 57th and Eritrea ranks 56th of 197 countries.

Across the 6 decades both report, Bangladesh averaged higher in 4 and Eritrea in 2.

Head to head by decade

Decade	Bangladesh	Eritrea	Difference	Ahead
1970s	147.22 per 1,000 live births	100.86 per 1,000 live births	46.36 per 1,000 live births	Bangladesh
1980s	117.05 per 1,000 live births	106.22 per 1,000 live births	10.83 per 1,000 live births	Bangladesh
1990s	79.75 per 1,000 live births	67.01 per 1,000 live births	12.74 per 1,000 live births	Bangladesh
2000s	47.9 per 1,000 live births	44.19 per 1,000 live births	3.71 per 1,000 live births	Bangladesh
2010s	30.7 per 1,000 live births	32.96 per 1,000 live births	2.26 per 1,000 live births	Eritrea
2020s	24.5 per 1,000 live births	26.22 per 1,000 live births	1.72 per 1,000 live births	Eritrea

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher mortality rate, infant, Bangladesh or Eritrea?: Eritrea, at 24.7 per 1,000 live births against 24.4 per 1,000 live births in Bangladesh as of 2024.
What is the difference in mortality rate, infant between Bangladesh and Eritrea?: 0.3 per 1,000 live births, with Eritrea ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Bangladesh and Eritrea?: 50 years are reported by both, from 1975 to 2024.
How do Bangladesh and Eritrea rank globally for mortality rate, infant?: Bangladesh ranks 57th and Eritrea ranks 56th 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 (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 (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 is the number of infants dying before reaching one year of age, per 1,000 live births in a given year.