Middle income vs Zimbabwe: Mortality rate, under-5

Middle income
34.27 per 1,000 live births
in 2024
Zimbabwe
64.7 per 1,000 live births
in 2024
Middle income rank
20th
Zimbabwe rank
17th

Mortality rate, under-5 over time

  • Middle income
  • Zimbabwe
255075100125150196019922024

How they compare

Zimbabwe currently reports 64.7 per 1,000 live births against 34.27 per 1,000 live births in Middle income, a difference of 30.43 per 1,000 live births.

That makes Zimbabwe's figure about 1.9 times Middle income's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 35 shared years of data; in 1990 it was Middle income ahead.

Middle income ranks 20th and Zimbabwe ranks 17th of 45 groups.

Zimbabwe has averaged higher in every one of the 4 decades both report.

Head to head by decade

Decade Middle income Zimbabwe Difference Ahead
1990s 87.02 per 1,000 live births 97.42 per 1,000 live births 10.4 per 1,000 live births Zimbabwe
2000s 62.28 per 1,000 live births 92.33 per 1,000 live births 30.05 per 1,000 live births Zimbabwe
2010s 41.56 per 1,000 live births 64.11 per 1,000 live births 22.55 per 1,000 live births Zimbabwe
2020s 35.56 per 1,000 live births 63.4 per 1,000 live births 27.84 per 1,000 live births Zimbabwe

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher mortality rate, under-5, Middle income or Zimbabwe?
Zimbabwe, at 64.7 per 1,000 live births against 34.27 per 1,000 live births in Middle income as of 2024.
What is the difference in mortality rate, under-5 between Middle income and Zimbabwe?
30.43 per 1,000 live births, with Zimbabwe ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Middle income and Zimbabwe?
35 years are reported by both, from 1990 to 2024.
How do Middle income and Zimbabwe rank globally for mortality rate, under-5?
Middle income ranks 20th and Zimbabwe ranks 17th of 45 groups.
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 (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

Middle income vs Zimbabwe: Mortality rate, under-5. 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-under-5-per-1-000-live-births/middle-income/zimbabwe/

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-under-5-per-1-000-live-births/middle-income/zimbabwe/">Middle income vs Zimbabwe: Mortality rate, under-5</a> — Statizoid

About this data

Indicator
Mortality rate, under-5 (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, 13,506 data points, 1960–2024
Last refreshed

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