What is the difference in mortality rate, neonatal between Cameroon and Mozambique?

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

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

45 years are reported by both, from 1980 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.

Cameroon vs Mozambique: Mortality rate, neonatal

Cameroon

24.8 per 1,000 live births

in 2024

Mozambique

25.1 per 1,000 live births

in 2024

Cameroon rank

24th

Mozambique rank

22nd

Mortality rate, neonatal over time

Cameroon
Mozambique

How they compare

Mozambique currently reports 25.1 per 1,000 live births against 24.8 per 1,000 live births in Cameroon, a difference of 0.3 per 1,000 live births.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 45 shared years of data; in 1980 it was Mozambique ahead.

Cameroon ranks 24th and Mozambique ranks 22nd of 197 countries.

Across the 5 decades both report, Cameroon averaged higher in 1 and Mozambique in 4.

Head to head by decade

Decade	Cameroon	Mozambique	Difference	Ahead
1980s	46.06 per 1,000 live births	63.17 per 1,000 live births	17.11 per 1,000 live births	Mozambique
1990s	38.94 per 1,000 live births	54.84 per 1,000 live births	15.9 per 1,000 live births	Mozambique
2000s	33.36 per 1,000 live births	35.65 per 1,000 live births	2.29 per 1,000 live births	Mozambique
2010s	29.59 per 1,000 live births	27.03 per 1,000 live births	2.56 per 1,000 live births	Cameroon
2020s	25.76 per 1,000 live births	25.9 per 1,000 live births	0.14 per 1,000 live births	Mozambique

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher mortality rate, neonatal, Cameroon or Mozambique?: Mozambique, at 25.1 per 1,000 live births against 24.8 per 1,000 live births in Cameroon as of 2024.
What is the difference in mortality rate, neonatal between Cameroon and Mozambique?: 0.3 per 1,000 live births, with Mozambique ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Cameroon and Mozambique?: 45 years are reported by both, from 1980 to 2024.
How do Cameroon and Mozambique rank globally for mortality rate, neonatal?: Cameroon ranks 24th and Mozambique ranks 22nd 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, 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

Cameroon vs Mozambique: Mortality rate, neonatal. Statizoid, drawing on UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation, UN Children's Fund (UNICEF). Retrieved 03 September 2026, from https://health.statizoid.com/compare/mortality-rate-neonatal-per-1-000-live-births/cameroon/mozambique/

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/cameroon/mozambique/">Cameroon vs Mozambique: 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: 244 places, 11,751 data points, 1960–2024
Last refreshed: 03 September 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.