Which has higher number of neonatal, infant and child deaths, Somalia or Yemen?

Yemen, at 29,116 deaths against 27,537 deaths in Somalia as of 2024.

What is the difference in number of neonatal, infant and child deaths between Somalia and Yemen?

1,579 deaths, with Yemen ahead.

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

41 years are reported by both, from 1984 to 2024.

Where does this data come from?

United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (2025) – processed by Our World in Data, published as Number of neonatal, infant and child deaths. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

Somalia vs Yemen: Number of neonatal, infant and child deaths

Somalia

27,537 deaths

in 2024

Yemen

29,116 deaths

in 2024

Somalia rank

18th

Yemen rank

16th

Number of neonatal, infant and child deaths over time

Somalia
Yemen

How they compare

Yemen currently reports 29,116 deaths against 27,537 deaths in Somalia, a difference of 1,579 deaths.

That makes Yemen's figure about 1.1 times Somalia's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 41 shared years of data; in 1984 it was Yemen ahead.

Somalia ranks 18th and Yemen ranks 16th of 199 countries.

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

Head to head by decade

Decade	Somalia	Yemen	Difference	Ahead
1980s	16,135 deaths	30,587 deaths	14,452 deaths	Yemen
1990s	16,941 deaths	30,553 deaths	13,612 deaths	Yemen
2000s	23,397 deaths	27,593 deaths	4,196 deaths	Yemen
2010s	26,467 deaths	26,808 deaths	340.9 deaths	Yemen
2020s	27,567 deaths	29,307 deaths	1,740 deaths	Yemen

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher number of neonatal, infant and child deaths, Somalia or Yemen?: Yemen, at 29,116 deaths against 27,537 deaths in Somalia as of 2024.
What is the difference in number of neonatal, infant and child deaths between Somalia and Yemen?: 1,579 deaths, with Yemen ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Somalia and Yemen?: 41 years are reported by both, from 1984 to 2024.
How do Somalia and Yemen rank globally for number of neonatal, infant and child deaths?: Somalia ranks 18th and Yemen ranks 16th of 199 countries.
Where does this data come from?: United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (2025) – processed by Our World in Data, published as Number of neonatal, infant and child deaths. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

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Indicator: Number of neonatal, infant and child deaths
Unit: deaths
Source: United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (2025) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 199 places, 10,164 data points, 1952–2024
Last refreshed: 28 August 2026

Estimated number of deaths of children aged less than 28 days .