Japan vs Sweden: Mortality rate, under-5, male
Japan
2.5 per 1,000 live births
in 2024
Sweden
2.6 per 1,000 live births
in 2024
Japan rank
191st
Sweden rank
189th
Mortality rate, under-5, male over time
- Japan
- Sweden
How they compare
Sweden currently reports 2.6 per 1,000 live births against 2.5 per 1,000 live births in Japan, a difference of 0.1 per 1,000 live births.
The two have swapped places 7 times across 65 shared years of data; in 1960 it was Japan ahead.
Japan ranks 191st and Sweden ranks 189th of 197 countries.
Across the 7 decades both report, Japan averaged higher in 5 and Sweden in 2.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Japan | Sweden | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 30.09 per 1,000 live births | 18.96 per 1,000 live births | 11.13 per 1,000 live births | Japan |
| 1970s | 15.45 per 1,000 live births | 12.19 per 1,000 live births | 3.26 per 1,000 live births | Japan |
| 1980s | 8.68 per 1,000 live births | 8.52 per 1,000 live births | 0.16 per 1,000 live births | Japan |
| 1990s | 6.16 per 1,000 live births | 5.83 per 1,000 live births | 0.33 per 1,000 live births | Japan |
| 2000s | 4.12 per 1,000 live births | 3.98 per 1,000 live births | 0.14 per 1,000 live births | Japan |
| 2010s | 2.98 per 1,000 live births | 3.12 per 1,000 live births | 0.14 per 1,000 live births | Sweden |
| 2020s | 2.5 per 1,000 live births | 2.72 per 1,000 live births | 0.22 per 1,000 live births | Sweden |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher mortality rate, under-5, male, Japan or Sweden?
- Sweden, at 2.6 per 1,000 live births against 2.5 per 1,000 live births in Japan as of 2024.
- What is the difference in mortality rate, under-5, male between Japan and Sweden?
- 0.1 per 1,000 live births, with Sweden ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Japan and Sweden?
- 65 years are reported by both, from 1960 to 2024.
- How do Japan and Sweden rank globally for mortality rate, under-5, male?
- Japan ranks 191st and Sweden ranks 189th 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, male (per 1,000 live births). Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.
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About this data
Under-five mortality rate, male is the probability per 1,000 that a newborn male baby will die before reaching age five, if subject to male age-specific mortality rates of the specified year.