What is the difference in mortality rate, infant between Portugal and Spain?

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

How many years of comparable data are there for Portugal and Spain?

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.

Portugal vs Spain: Mortality rate, infant

Portugal

2.7 per 1,000 live births

in 2024

Spain

2.6 per 1,000 live births

in 2024

Portugal rank

176th

Spain rank

178th

Mortality rate, infant over time

Portugal
Spain

How they compare

Portugal currently reports 2.7 per 1,000 live births against 2.6 per 1,000 live births in Spain, a difference of 0.1 per 1,000 live births.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 65 shared years of data; in 1960 it was Portugal ahead.

Portugal ranks 176th and Spain ranks 178th of 197 countries.

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

Head to head by decade

Decade	Portugal	Spain	Difference	Ahead
1960s	69.96 per 1,000 live births	38.23 per 1,000 live births	31.73 per 1,000 live births	Portugal
1970s	38.67 per 1,000 live births	19.86 per 1,000 live births	18.81 per 1,000 live births	Portugal
1980s	17.25 per 1,000 live births	9.66 per 1,000 live births	7.59 per 1,000 live births	Portugal
1990s	8.2 per 1,000 live births	5.82 per 1,000 live births	2.38 per 1,000 live births	Portugal
2000s	4.02 per 1,000 live births	3.85 per 1,000 live births	0.17 per 1,000 live births	Portugal
2010s	2.92 per 1,000 live births	2.82 per 1,000 live births	0.1 per 1,000 live births	Portugal
2020s	2.72 per 1,000 live births	2.6 per 1,000 live births	0.12 per 1,000 live births	Portugal

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher mortality rate, infant, Portugal or Spain?: Portugal, at 2.7 per 1,000 live births against 2.6 per 1,000 live births in Spain as of 2024.
What is the difference in mortality rate, infant between Portugal and Spain?: 0.1 per 1,000 live births, with Portugal ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Portugal and Spain?: 65 years are reported by both, from 1960 to 2024.
How do Portugal and Spain rank globally for mortality rate, infant?: Portugal ranks 176th and Spain ranks 178th 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.