What is the difference in mortality rate, under-5, female between Namibia and Yemen?

1 per 1,000 live births, with Namibia ahead.

How many years of comparable data are there for Namibia and Yemen?

58 years are reported by both, from 1967 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, under-5, female (per 1,000 live births). Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

Namibia vs Yemen: Mortality rate, under-5, female

Namibia

35.4 per 1,000 live births

in 2024

Yemen

34.4 per 1,000 live births

in 2024

Namibia rank

42nd

Yemen rank

44th

Mortality rate, under-5, female over time

Namibia
Yemen

How they compare

Namibia currently reports 35.4 per 1,000 live births against 34.4 per 1,000 live births in Yemen, a difference of 1 per 1,000 live births.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 58 shared years of data; in 1967 it was Yemen ahead.

Namibia ranks 42nd and Yemen ranks 44th of 197 countries.

Across the 7 decades both report, Namibia averaged higher in 1 and Yemen in 6.

Head to head by decade

Decade	Namibia	Yemen	Difference	Ahead
1960s	90.97 per 1,000 live births	348.23 per 1,000 live births	257.27 per 1,000 live births	Yemen
1970s	93.93 per 1,000 live births	269.51 per 1,000 live births	175.58 per 1,000 live births	Yemen
1980s	83.61 per 1,000 live births	155.89 per 1,000 live births	72.28 per 1,000 live births	Yemen
1990s	68.07 per 1,000 live births	105.7 per 1,000 live births	37.63 per 1,000 live births	Yemen
2000s	63.86 per 1,000 live births	68.75 per 1,000 live births	4.89 per 1,000 live births	Yemen
2010s	45.14 per 1,000 live births	45.39 per 1,000 live births	0.25 per 1,000 live births	Yemen
2020s	37.7 per 1,000 live births	37.08 per 1,000 live births	0.62 per 1,000 live births	Namibia

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher mortality rate, under-5, female, Namibia or Yemen?: Namibia, at 35.4 per 1,000 live births against 34.4 per 1,000 live births in Yemen as of 2024.
What is the difference in mortality rate, under-5, female between Namibia and Yemen?: 1 per 1,000 live births, with Namibia ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Namibia and Yemen?: 58 years are reported by both, from 1967 to 2024.
How do Namibia and Yemen rank globally for mortality rate, under-5, female?: Namibia ranks 42nd and Yemen ranks 44th 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, under-5, female (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, under-5, female (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

Under-five mortality rate, female is the probability per 1,000 that a newborn female baby will die before reaching age five, if subject to female age-specific mortality rates of the specified year.