What is the difference in mortality rate, infant between Kenya and Yemen?

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

How many years of comparable data are there for Kenya and Yemen?

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.

Kenya vs Yemen: Mortality rate, infant

Kenya

34.2 per 1,000 live births

in 2024

Yemen

33.8 per 1,000 live births

in 2024

Kenya rank

37th

Yemen rank

38th

Mortality rate, infant over time

Kenya
Yemen

How they compare

Kenya currently reports 34.2 per 1,000 live births against 33.8 per 1,000 live births in Yemen, a difference of 0.4 per 1,000 live births.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 65 shared years of data; in 1960 it was Yemen ahead.

Kenya ranks 37th and Yemen ranks 38th of 197 countries.

Yemen has averaged higher in every one of the 7 decades both report.

Head to head by decade

Decade	Kenya	Yemen	Difference	Ahead
1960s	98.56 per 1,000 live births	258.56 per 1,000 live births	160 per 1,000 live births	Yemen
1970s	79.39 per 1,000 live births	194.06 per 1,000 live births	114.67 per 1,000 live births	Yemen
1980s	64.88 per 1,000 live births	121.45 per 1,000 live births	56.57 per 1,000 live births	Yemen
1990s	69.34 per 1,000 live births	88.44 per 1,000 live births	19.1 per 1,000 live births	Yemen
2000s	51.75 per 1,000 live births	61.11 per 1,000 live births	9.36 per 1,000 live births	Yemen
2010s	39.43 per 1,000 live births	42.14 per 1,000 live births	2.71 per 1,000 live births	Yemen
2020s	35.38 per 1,000 live births	35.84 per 1,000 live births	0.46 per 1,000 live births	Yemen

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher mortality rate, infant, Kenya or Yemen?: Kenya, at 34.2 per 1,000 live births against 33.8 per 1,000 live births in Yemen as of 2024.
What is the difference in mortality rate, infant between Kenya and Yemen?: 0.4 per 1,000 live births, with Kenya ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Kenya and Yemen?: 65 years are reported by both, from 1960 to 2024.
How do Kenya and Yemen rank globally for mortality rate, infant?: Kenya ranks 37th and Yemen ranks 38th 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.