What is the difference in mortality rate, infant between Libya and Tonga?

0.1 per 1,000 live births, with Libya ahead.

How many years of comparable data are there for Libya and Tonga?

62 years are reported by both, from 1963 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.

Libya vs Tonga: Mortality rate, infant

Libya

7.9 per 1,000 live births

in 2024

Tonga

7.8 per 1,000 live births

in 2024

Libya rank

129th

Tonga rank

130th

Mortality rate, infant over time

Libya
Tonga

How they compare

Libya currently reports 7.9 per 1,000 live births against 7.8 per 1,000 live births in Tonga, a difference of 0.1 per 1,000 live births.

Across all 62 years both countries report, Libya has been ahead every year.

Libya ranks 129th and Tonga ranks 130th of 197 countries.

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

Head to head by decade

Decade	Libya	Tonga	Difference	Ahead
1960s	132.54 per 1,000 live births	51.6 per 1,000 live births	80.94 per 1,000 live births	Libya
1970s	74.82 per 1,000 live births	31.03 per 1,000 live births	43.79 per 1,000 live births	Libya
1980s	42.87 per 1,000 live births	21.14 per 1,000 live births	21.73 per 1,000 live births	Libya
1990s	26.18 per 1,000 live births	15.74 per 1,000 live births	10.44 per 1,000 live births	Libya
2000s	17.98 per 1,000 live births	12.25 per 1,000 live births	5.73 per 1,000 live births	Libya
2010s	11.04 per 1,000 live births	9.71 per 1,000 live births	1.33 per 1,000 live births	Libya
2020s	10.06 per 1,000 live births	8.24 per 1,000 live births	1.82 per 1,000 live births	Libya

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher mortality rate, infant, Libya or Tonga?: Libya, at 7.9 per 1,000 live births against 7.8 per 1,000 live births in Tonga as of 2024.
What is the difference in mortality rate, infant between Libya and Tonga?: 0.1 per 1,000 live births, with Libya ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Libya and Tonga?: 62 years are reported by both, from 1963 to 2024.
How do Libya and Tonga rank globally for mortality rate, infant?: Libya ranks 129th and Tonga ranks 130th 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

Libya vs Tonga: Mortality rate, infant. Statizoid, drawing on UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation, UN Children's Fund (UNICEF). Retrieved 22 August 2026, from https://health.statizoid.com/compare/mortality-rate-infant-per-1-000-live-births/libya/tonga/

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/libya/tonga/">Libya vs Tonga: 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: 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.