What is the difference in mortality rate, infant between Comoros and Malawi?

3 per 1,000 live births, with Malawi ahead.

How many years of comparable data are there for Comoros and Malawi?

52 years are reported by both, from 1973 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.

Comoros vs Malawi: Mortality rate, infant

Comoros

35 per 1,000 live births

in 2024

Malawi

38 per 1,000 live births

in 2024

Comoros rank

32nd

Malawi rank

29th

Mortality rate, infant over time

Comoros
Malawi

How they compare

Malawi currently reports 38 per 1,000 live births against 35 per 1,000 live births in Comoros, a difference of 3 per 1,000 live births.

That makes Malawi's figure about 1.1 times Comoros's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 52 shared years of data; in 1973 it was Malawi ahead.

Comoros ranks 32nd and Malawi ranks 29th of 197 countries.

Across the 6 decades both report, Comoros averaged higher in 1 and Malawi in 5.

Head to head by decade

Decade	Comoros	Malawi	Difference	Ahead
1970s	139.63 per 1,000 live births	147.76 per 1,000 live births	8.13 per 1,000 live births	Malawi
1980s	111.42 per 1,000 live births	133.77 per 1,000 live births	22.35 per 1,000 live births	Malawi
1990s	79.8 per 1,000 live births	118.72 per 1,000 live births	38.92 per 1,000 live births	Malawi
2000s	56.41 per 1,000 live births	76.32 per 1,000 live births	19.91 per 1,000 live births	Malawi
2010s	43.39 per 1,000 live births	42.19 per 1,000 live births	1.2 per 1,000 live births	Comoros
2020s	36.98 per 1,000 live births	38.3 per 1,000 live births	1.32 per 1,000 live births	Malawi

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher mortality rate, infant, Comoros or Malawi?: Malawi, at 38 per 1,000 live births against 35 per 1,000 live births in Comoros as of 2024.
What is the difference in mortality rate, infant between Comoros and Malawi?: 3 per 1,000 live births, with Malawi ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Comoros and Malawi?: 52 years are reported by both, from 1973 to 2024.
How do Comoros and Malawi rank globally for mortality rate, infant?: Comoros ranks 32nd and Malawi ranks 29th 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: 20 August 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.