What is the difference in mortality rate, infant between Eswatini and Middle income?

16.02 per 1,000 live births, with Eswatini ahead.

How many years of comparable data are there for Eswatini and Middle income?

35 years are reported by both, from 1990 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.

Eswatini vs Middle income: Mortality rate, infant

Eswatini

42.2 per 1,000 live births

in 2024

Middle income

26.18 per 1,000 live births

in 2024

Eswatini rank

24th

Middle income rank

21st

Mortality rate, infant over time

Eswatini
Middle income

How they compare

Eswatini currently reports 42.2 per 1,000 live births against 26.18 per 1,000 live births in Middle income, a difference of 16.02 per 1,000 live births.

That makes Eswatini's figure about 1.6 times Middle income's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 35 shared years of data; in 1990 it was Middle income ahead.

Eswatini ranks 24th and Middle income ranks 21st of 197 countries.

Eswatini has averaged higher in every one of the 4 decades both report.

Head to head by decade

Decade	Eswatini	Middle income	Difference	Ahead
1990s	62.15 per 1,000 live births	61.54 per 1,000 live births	0.6101 per 1,000 live births	Eswatini
2000s	69.31 per 1,000 live births	45.37 per 1,000 live births	23.94 per 1,000 live births	Eswatini
2010s	53.54 per 1,000 live births	31.48 per 1,000 live births	22.06 per 1,000 live births	Eswatini
2020s	45.26 per 1,000 live births	27.15 per 1,000 live births	18.11 per 1,000 live births	Eswatini

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher mortality rate, infant, Eswatini or Middle income?: Eswatini, at 42.2 per 1,000 live births against 26.18 per 1,000 live births in Middle income as of 2024.
What is the difference in mortality rate, infant between Eswatini and Middle income?: 16.02 per 1,000 live births, with Eswatini ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Eswatini and Middle income?: 35 years are reported by both, from 1990 to 2024.
How do Eswatini and Middle income rank globally for mortality rate, infant?: Eswatini ranks 24th and Middle income ranks 21st 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.