What is the difference in mortality rate, infant between Kenya and Upper middle income?

23.3 per 1,000 live births, with Kenya ahead.

How many years of comparable data are there for Kenya and Upper 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.

Kenya vs Upper middle income: Mortality rate, infant

Kenya

34.2 per 1,000 live births

in 2024

Upper middle income

10.9 per 1,000 live births

in 2024

Kenya rank

37th

Upper middle income rank

36th

Mortality rate, infant over time

Kenya
Upper middle income

How they compare

Kenya currently reports 34.2 per 1,000 live births against 10.9 per 1,000 live births in Upper middle income, a difference of 23.3 per 1,000 live births.

That makes Kenya's figure about 3.1 times Upper middle income's.

Across all 35 years both countries report, Kenya has been ahead every year.

Kenya ranks 37th and Upper middle income ranks 36th of 197 countries.

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

Head to head by decade

Decade	Kenya	Upper middle income	Difference	Ahead
1990s	69.34 per 1,000 live births	39.34 per 1,000 live births	30 per 1,000 live births	Kenya
2000s	51.75 per 1,000 live births	23.92 per 1,000 live births	27.83 per 1,000 live births	Kenya
2010s	39.43 per 1,000 live births	13.93 per 1,000 live births	25.5 per 1,000 live births	Kenya
2020s	35.38 per 1,000 live births	11.38 per 1,000 live births	24 per 1,000 live births	Kenya

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher mortality rate, infant, Kenya or Upper middle income?: Kenya, at 34.2 per 1,000 live births against 10.9 per 1,000 live births in Upper middle income as of 2024.
What is the difference in mortality rate, infant between Kenya and Upper middle income?: 23.3 per 1,000 live births, with Kenya ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Kenya and Upper middle income?: 35 years are reported by both, from 1990 to 2024.
How do Kenya and Upper middle income rank globally for mortality rate, infant?: Kenya ranks 37th and Upper middle income ranks 36th 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.