What is the difference in mortality rate, neonatal between East Timor and Zambia?

0.2 per 1,000 live births, with East Timor ahead.

How many years of comparable data are there for East Timor and Zambia?

39 years are reported by both, from 1986 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.

East Timor vs Zambia: Mortality rate, neonatal (per 1,000 live births)

East Timor

21.6 per 1,000 live births

in 2024

Zambia

21.4 per 1,000 live births

in 2024

East Timor rank

36th

Zambia rank

37th

Mortality rate, neonatal (per 1,000 live births) over time

East Timor
Zambia

How they compare

East Timor currently reports 21.6 per 1,000 live births against 21.4 per 1,000 live births in Zambia, a difference of 0.2 per 1,000 live births.

Across all 39 years both countries report, East Timor has been ahead every year.

East Timor ranks 36th and Zambia ranks 37th of 197 countries.

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

Head to head by decade

Decade	East Timor	Zambia	Difference	Ahead
1980s	61.67 per 1,000 live births	35.85 per 1,000 live births	25.83 per 1,000 live births	East Timor
1990s	50.45 per 1,000 live births	34.18 per 1,000 live births	16.27 per 1,000 live births	East Timor
2000s	33.17 per 1,000 live births	28.39 per 1,000 live births	4.78 per 1,000 live births	East Timor
2010s	25.33 per 1,000 live births	23.48 per 1,000 live births	1.85 per 1,000 live births	East Timor
2020s	22.46 per 1,000 live births	21.62 per 1,000 live births	0.84 per 1,000 live births	East Timor

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher mortality rate, neonatal, East Timor or Zambia?: East Timor, at 21.6 per 1,000 live births against 21.4 per 1,000 live births in Zambia as of 2024.
What is the difference in mortality rate, neonatal between East Timor and Zambia?: 0.2 per 1,000 live births, with East Timor ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for East Timor and Zambia?: 39 years are reported by both, from 1986 to 2024.
How do East Timor and Zambia rank globally for mortality rate, neonatal?: East Timor ranks 36th and Zambia ranks 37th 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

East Timor vs Zambia: Mortality rate, neonatal. Statizoid, drawing on UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation, UN Children's Fund (UNICEF). Retrieved 11 November 2026, from https://health.statizoid.com/compare/mortality-rate-neonatal-per-1-000-live-births/timor-leste/zambia/

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/timor-leste/zambia/">East Timor vs Zambia: 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: 29 October 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.