What is the difference in mortality rate, infant between Nigeria and Pre-demographic dividend?

20.82 per 1,000 live births, with Nigeria ahead.

How many years of comparable data are there for Nigeria and Pre-demographic dividend?

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.

Nigeria vs Pre-demographic dividend: Mortality rate, infant

Nigeria

69.8 per 1,000 live births

in 2024

Pre-demographic dividend

48.98 per 1,000 live births

in 2024

Nigeria rank

2nd

Pre-demographic dividend rank

3rd

Mortality rate, infant over time

Nigeria
Pre-demographic dividend

How they compare

Nigeria currently reports 69.8 per 1,000 live births against 48.98 per 1,000 live births in Pre-demographic dividend, a difference of 20.82 per 1,000 live births.

That makes Nigeria's figure about 1.4 times Pre-demographic dividend's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 35 shared years of data; in 1990 it was Nigeria ahead.

Nigeria ranks 2nd and Pre-demographic dividend ranks 3rd of 197 countries.

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

Head to head by decade

Decade	Nigeria	Pre-demographic dividend	Difference	Ahead
1990s	103.1 per 1,000 live births	101.03 per 1,000 live births	2.07 per 1,000 live births	Nigeria
2000s	82.3 per 1,000 live births	76.37 per 1,000 live births	5.93 per 1,000 live births	Nigeria
2010s	68.9 per 1,000 live births	56.77 per 1,000 live births	12.13 per 1,000 live births	Nigeria
2020s	69.9 per 1,000 live births	50.64 per 1,000 live births	19.26 per 1,000 live births	Nigeria

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher mortality rate, infant, Nigeria or Pre-demographic dividend?: Nigeria, at 69.8 per 1,000 live births against 48.98 per 1,000 live births in Pre-demographic dividend as of 2024.
What is the difference in mortality rate, infant between Nigeria and Pre-demographic dividend?: 20.82 per 1,000 live births, with Nigeria ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Nigeria and Pre-demographic dividend?: 35 years are reported by both, from 1990 to 2024.
How do Nigeria and Pre-demographic dividend rank globally for mortality rate, infant?: Nigeria ranks 2nd and Pre-demographic dividend ranks 3rd 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.