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

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

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

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

Ethiopia vs Timor-Leste: Mortality rate, infant

Ethiopia

34.5 per 1,000 live births

in 2024

Timor-Leste

34.6 per 1,000 live births

in 2024

Ethiopia rank

36th

Timor-Leste rank

34th

Mortality rate, infant over time

Ethiopia
Timor-Leste

How they compare

Timor-Leste currently reports 34.6 per 1,000 live births against 34.5 per 1,000 live births in Ethiopia, 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.

Ethiopia ranks 36th and Timor-Leste ranks 34th of 197 countries.

Across the 5 decades both report, Ethiopia averaged higher in 3 and Timor-Leste in 2.

Head to head by decade

Decade	Ethiopia	Timor-Leste	Difference	Ahead
1980s	152.94 per 1,000 live births	184.52 per 1,000 live births	31.58 per 1,000 live births	Timor-Leste
1990s	111.93 per 1,000 live births	141.86 per 1,000 live births	29.93 per 1,000 live births	Timor-Leste
2000s	76.57 per 1,000 live births	68.16 per 1,000 live births	8.41 per 1,000 live births	Ethiopia
2010s	49.35 per 1,000 live births	44.93 per 1,000 live births	4.42 per 1,000 live births	Ethiopia
2020s	42.16 per 1,000 live births	36.68 per 1,000 live births	5.48 per 1,000 live births	Ethiopia

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher mortality rate, infant, Ethiopia or Timor-Leste?: Timor-Leste, at 34.6 per 1,000 live births against 34.5 per 1,000 live births in Ethiopia as of 2024.
What is the difference in mortality rate, infant between Ethiopia and Timor-Leste?: 0.1 per 1,000 live births, with Timor-Leste ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Ethiopia and Timor-Leste?: 40 years are reported by both, from 1985 to 2024.
How do Ethiopia and Timor-Leste rank globally for mortality rate, infant?: Ethiopia ranks 36th and Timor-Leste ranks 34th 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.