Lesotho vs Sierra Leone: Neonatal mortality rate

Lesotho

2.85 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Sierra Leone

2.83 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Lesotho rank

14th

Sierra Leone rank

15th

Neonatal mortality rate over time

Lesotho
Sierra Leone

How they compare

Lesotho currently reports 2.85 deaths per 100 live births against 2.83 deaths per 100 live births in Sierra Leone, a difference of 0.023 deaths per 100 live births.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 36 shared years of data; in 1989 it was Sierra Leone ahead.

Lesotho ranks 14th and Sierra Leone ranks 15th of 199 countries.

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About this data

Indicator: Neonatal mortality rate
Unit: deaths per 100 live births
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, 10,377 data points, 1951–2024
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

The estimated number of deaths of children aged less than 28 days, per 100 live births .