What is the difference in mortality rate, infant between Italy and Spain?

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

How many years of comparable data are there for Italy and Spain?

65 years are reported by both, from 1960 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.

Italy vs Spain: Mortality rate, infant

Italy

2.3 per 1,000 live births

in 2024

Spain

2.6 per 1,000 live births

in 2024

Italy rank

181st

Spain rank

178th

Mortality rate, infant over time

Italy
Spain

How they compare

Spain currently reports 2.6 per 1,000 live births against 2.3 per 1,000 live births in Italy, a difference of 0.3 per 1,000 live births.

That makes Spain's figure about 1.1 times Italy's.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 65 shared years of data; in 1960 it was Spain ahead.

Italy ranks 181st and Spain ranks 178th of 197 countries.

Across the 7 decades both report, Italy averaged higher in 5 and Spain in 2.

Head to head by decade

Decade	Italy	Spain	Difference	Ahead
1960s	37.04 per 1,000 live births	38.23 per 1,000 live births	1.19 per 1,000 live births	Spain
1970s	21.9 per 1,000 live births	19.86 per 1,000 live births	2.04 per 1,000 live births	Italy
1980s	11.09 per 1,000 live births	9.66 per 1,000 live births	1.43 per 1,000 live births	Italy
1990s	6.66 per 1,000 live births	5.82 per 1,000 live births	0.84 per 1,000 live births	Italy
2000s	3.95 per 1,000 live births	3.85 per 1,000 live births	0.1 per 1,000 live births	Italy
2010s	3.01 per 1,000 live births	2.82 per 1,000 live births	0.19 per 1,000 live births	Italy
2020s	2.4 per 1,000 live births	2.6 per 1,000 live births	0.2 per 1,000 live births	Spain

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher mortality rate, infant, Italy or Spain?: Spain, at 2.6 per 1,000 live births against 2.3 per 1,000 live births in Italy as of 2024.
What is the difference in mortality rate, infant between Italy and Spain?: 0.3 per 1,000 live births, with Spain ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Italy and Spain?: 65 years are reported by both, from 1960 to 2024.
How do Italy and Spain rank globally for mortality rate, infant?: Italy ranks 181st and Spain ranks 178th 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.