What is the difference in mortality rate, neonatal between Argentina and Libya?

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

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

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, neonatal (per 1,000 live births). Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

Argentina vs Libya: Mortality rate, neonatal

Argentina

5.1 per 1,000 live births

in 2024

Libya

5.2 per 1,000 live births

in 2024

Argentina rank

126th

Libya rank

124th

Mortality rate, neonatal over time

Argentina
Libya

How they compare

Libya currently reports 5.2 per 1,000 live births against 5.1 per 1,000 live births in Argentina, a difference of 0.1 per 1,000 live births.

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

Argentina ranks 126th and Libya ranks 124th of 196 countries.

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

Head to head by decade

Decade	Argentina	Libya	Difference	Ahead
1970s	22.23 per 1,000 live births	33.64 per 1,000 live births	11.41 per 1,000 live births	Libya
1980s	16.6 per 1,000 live births	25.19 per 1,000 live births	8.59 per 1,000 live births	Libya
1990s	13.25 per 1,000 live births	18.3 per 1,000 live births	5.05 per 1,000 live births	Libya
2000s	9.49 per 1,000 live births	12.49 per 1,000 live births	3 per 1,000 live births	Libya
2010s	6.88 per 1,000 live births	7.36 per 1,000 live births	0.48 per 1,000 live births	Libya
2020s	5.62 per 1,000 live births	5.68 per 1,000 live births	0.06 per 1,000 live births	Libya

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher mortality rate, neonatal, Argentina or Libya?: Libya, at 5.2 per 1,000 live births against 5.1 per 1,000 live births in Argentina as of 2024.
What is the difference in mortality rate, neonatal between Argentina and Libya?: 0.1 per 1,000 live births, with Libya ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Argentina and Libya?: 53 years are reported by both, from 1972 to 2024.
How do Argentina and Libya rank globally for mortality rate, neonatal?: Argentina ranks 126th and Libya ranks 124th of 196 countries.
Where does this data come from?: UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation, UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), published as Mortality rate, neonatal (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

Argentina vs Libya: Mortality rate, neonatal. Statizoid, drawing on UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation, UN Children's Fund (UNICEF). Retrieved 28 August 2026, from https://health.statizoid.com/compare/mortality-rate-neonatal-per-1-000-live-births/argentina/libya/

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-neonatal-per-1-000-live-births/argentina/libya/">Argentina vs Libya: Mortality rate, neonatal</a> — Statizoid

About this data

Indicator: Mortality rate, neonatal (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: 243 places, 11,715 data points, 1960–2024
Last refreshed: 20 August 2026

Neonatal mortality rate is the number of neonates dying before reaching 28 days of age, per 1,000 live births in a given year.