What is the difference in mortality rate, infant between Madagascar and Mozambique?

0.7 per 1,000 live births, with Mozambique ahead.

How many years of comparable data are there for Madagascar and Mozambique?

53 years are reported by both, from 1972 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.

Madagascar vs Mozambique: Mortality rate, infant

Madagascar

43 per 1,000 live births

in 2024

Mozambique

43.7 per 1,000 live births

in 2024

Madagascar rank

21st

Mozambique rank

19th

Mortality rate, infant over time

Madagascar
Mozambique

How they compare

Mozambique currently reports 43.7 per 1,000 live births against 43 per 1,000 live births in Madagascar, a difference of 0.7 per 1,000 live births.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 53 shared years of data; in 1972 it was Mozambique ahead.

Madagascar ranks 21st and Mozambique ranks 19th of 197 countries.

Mozambique has averaged higher in every one of the 6 decades both report.

Head to head by decade

Decade	Madagascar	Mozambique	Difference	Ahead
1970s	88.29 per 1,000 live births	152.8 per 1,000 live births	64.51 per 1,000 live births	Mozambique
1980s	117.89 per 1,000 live births	155.42 per 1,000 live births	37.53 per 1,000 live births	Mozambique
1990s	79.91 per 1,000 live births	135.01 per 1,000 live births	55.1 per 1,000 live births	Mozambique
2000s	55.59 per 1,000 live births	83.59 per 1,000 live births	28 per 1,000 live births	Mozambique
2010s	44.27 per 1,000 live births	54.92 per 1,000 live births	10.65 per 1,000 live births	Mozambique
2020s	43.9 per 1,000 live births	46.04 per 1,000 live births	2.14 per 1,000 live births	Mozambique

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher mortality rate, infant, Madagascar or Mozambique?: Mozambique, at 43.7 per 1,000 live births against 43 per 1,000 live births in Madagascar as of 2024.
What is the difference in mortality rate, infant between Madagascar and Mozambique?: 0.7 per 1,000 live births, with Mozambique ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Madagascar and Mozambique?: 53 years are reported by both, from 1972 to 2024.
How do Madagascar and Mozambique rank globally for mortality rate, infant?: Madagascar ranks 21st and Mozambique ranks 19th 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.