Which has higher number of child deaths, Nicaragua or Ukraine?

Ukraine, at 1,672 deaths against 1,486 deaths in Nicaragua as of 2024.

What is the difference in number of child deaths between Nicaragua and Ukraine?

186 deaths, with Ukraine ahead.

How many years of comparable data are there for Nicaragua and Ukraine?

49 years are reported by both, from 1976 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 child deaths. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

Nicaragua vs Ukraine: Number of child deaths

Nicaragua

1,486 deaths

in 2024

Ukraine

1,672 deaths

in 2024

Nicaragua rank

100th

Ukraine rank

98th

Number of child deaths over time

Nicaragua
Ukraine

How they compare

Ukraine currently reports 1,672 deaths against 1,486 deaths in Nicaragua, a difference of 186 deaths.

That makes Ukraine's figure about 1.1 times Nicaragua's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 49 shared years of data; in 1976 it was Ukraine ahead.

Nicaragua ranks 100th and Ukraine ranks 98th of 199 countries.

Ukraine has averaged higher in every one of the 6 decades both report.

Head to head by decade

Decade	Nicaragua	Ukraine	Difference	Ahead
1970s	17,111 deaths	20,353 deaths	3,242 deaths	Ukraine
1980s	12,449 deaths	17,323 deaths	4,874 deaths	Ukraine
1990s	7,998 deaths	10,693 deaths	2,695 deaths	Ukraine
2000s	4,184 deaths	6,446 deaths	2,263 deaths	Ukraine
2010s	2,496 deaths	4,605 deaths	2,110 deaths	Ukraine
2020s	1,803 deaths	2,273 deaths	470.4 deaths	Ukraine

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher number of child deaths, Nicaragua or Ukraine?: Ukraine, at 1,672 deaths against 1,486 deaths in Nicaragua as of 2024.
What is the difference in number of child deaths between Nicaragua and Ukraine?: 186 deaths, with Ukraine ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Nicaragua and Ukraine?: 49 years are reported by both, from 1976 to 2024.
How do Nicaragua and Ukraine rank globally for number of child deaths?: Nicaragua ranks 100th and Ukraine ranks 98th 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 child deaths. 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

Nicaragua vs Ukraine: Number of child deaths. Statizoid, drawing on United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (2025) – processed by Our World in Data. Retrieved 13 September 2026, from https://health.statizoid.com/compare/number-of-child-deaths-igme/nicaragua/ukraine/

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 (Our World in Data); please keep the attribution.

<a href="https://health.statizoid.com/compare/number-of-child-deaths-igme/nicaragua/ukraine/">Nicaragua vs Ukraine: Number of child deaths</a> — Statizoid

About this data

Indicator: Number of 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, 11,992 data points, 1955–2024
Last refreshed: 28 August 2026

Estimated number of deaths of children aged under 5 .