Middle income vs Zimbabwe: Mortality rate, under-5 (per 1,000 live births)
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 (per 1,000 live births) over time
- Middle income
- Zimbabwe
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 47 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 47 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.
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About this data
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.