Kiribati vs Malawi: Mortality rate, infant

Kiribati
38.8 per 1,000 live births
in 2024
Malawi
38 per 1,000 live births
in 2024
Kiribati rank
28th
Malawi rank
29th

Mortality rate, infant over time

  • Kiribati
  • Malawi
50100150196019922024

How they compare

Kiribati currently reports 38.8 per 1,000 live births against 38 per 1,000 live births in Malawi, a difference of 0.8 per 1,000 live births.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 64 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Malawi ahead.

Kiribati ranks 28th and Malawi ranks 29th of 197 countries.

Across the 7 decades both report, Kiribati averaged higher in 2 and Malawi in 5.

Head to head by decade

Decade Kiribati Malawi Difference Ahead
1960s 125.34 per 1,000 live births 165 per 1,000 live births 39.66 per 1,000 live births Malawi
1970s 95.85 per 1,000 live births 152.44 per 1,000 live births 56.59 per 1,000 live births Malawi
1980s 82.32 per 1,000 live births 133.77 per 1,000 live births 51.45 per 1,000 live births Malawi
1990s 59.1 per 1,000 live births 118.72 per 1,000 live births 59.62 per 1,000 live births Malawi
2000s 45.23 per 1,000 live births 76.32 per 1,000 live births 31.09 per 1,000 live births Malawi
2010s 42.52 per 1,000 live births 42.19 per 1,000 live births 0.33 per 1,000 live births Kiribati
2020s 40.64 per 1,000 live births 38.3 per 1,000 live births 2.34 per 1,000 live births Kiribati

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher mortality rate, infant, Kiribati or Malawi?
Kiribati, at 38.8 per 1,000 live births against 38 per 1,000 live births in Malawi as of 2024.
What is the difference in mortality rate, infant between Kiribati and Malawi?
0.8 per 1,000 live births, with Kiribati ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Kiribati and Malawi?
64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
How do Kiribati and Malawi rank globally for mortality rate, infant?
Kiribati ranks 28th and Malawi ranks 29th 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.

Individual pages

Share, cite or embed this page

Cite this page

Kiribati vs Malawi: Mortality rate, infant. Statizoid, drawing on UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation, UN Children's Fund (UNICEF). Retrieved 01 September 2026, from https://health.statizoid.com/compare/mortality-rate-infant-per-1-000-live-births/kiribati/malawi/

Embed or link this data

Paste this into a page to link back to these figures. The data itself is free to reuse under CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data); please keep the attribution.

<a href="https://health.statizoid.com/compare/mortality-rate-infant-per-1-000-live-births/kiribati/malawi/">Kiribati vs Malawi: Mortality rate, infant</a> — Statizoid

About this data

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

Infant mortality rate is the number of infants dying before reaching one year of age, per 1,000 live births in a given year.