What is the difference in mortality rate, infant between Somalia and Zimbabwe?

3 per 1,000 live births, with Somalia ahead.

How many years of comparable data are there for Somalia and Zimbabwe?

42 years are reported by both, from 1983 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.

Somalia vs Zimbabwe: Mortality rate, infant

Somalia

65.4 per 1,000 live births

in 2024

Zimbabwe

62.4 per 1,000 live births

in 2024

Somalia rank

4th

Zimbabwe rank

6th

Mortality rate, infant over time

Somalia
Zimbabwe

How they compare

Somalia currently reports 65.4 per 1,000 live births against 62.4 per 1,000 live births in Zimbabwe, a difference of 3 per 1,000 live births.

Across all 42 years both countries report, Somalia has been ahead every year.

Somalia ranks 4th and Zimbabwe ranks 6th of 197 countries.

Somalia has averaged higher in every one of the 5 decades both report.

Head to head by decade

Decade	Somalia	Zimbabwe	Difference	Ahead
1980s	107.29 per 1,000 live births	61.46 per 1,000 live births	45.83 per 1,000 live births	Somalia
1990s	138.78 per 1,000 live births	57.7 per 1,000 live births	81.08 per 1,000 live births	Somalia
2000s	102.83 per 1,000 live births	63.53 per 1,000 live births	39.3 per 1,000 live births	Somalia
2010s	103.85 per 1,000 live births	57.51 per 1,000 live births	46.34 per 1,000 live births	Somalia
2020s	73.14 per 1,000 live births	60.76 per 1,000 live births	12.38 per 1,000 live births	Somalia

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher mortality rate, infant, Somalia or Zimbabwe?: Somalia, at 65.4 per 1,000 live births against 62.4 per 1,000 live births in Zimbabwe as of 2024.
What is the difference in mortality rate, infant between Somalia and Zimbabwe?: 3 per 1,000 live births, with Somalia ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Somalia and Zimbabwe?: 42 years are reported by both, from 1983 to 2024.
How do Somalia and Zimbabwe rank globally for mortality rate, infant?: Somalia ranks 4th and Zimbabwe ranks 6th 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.