Which has higher number of child deaths, Sweden or Uruguay?

Uruguay, at 250 deaths against 240 deaths in Sweden as of 2024.

How many years of comparable data are there for Sweden and Uruguay?

70 years are reported by both, from 1955 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.

Sweden vs Uruguay: Number of child deaths

Sweden

240 deaths

in 2024

Uruguay

250 deaths

in 2024

Sweden rank

144th

Uruguay rank

142nd

Number of child deaths over time

Sweden
Uruguay

How they compare

Uruguay currently reports 250 deaths against 240 deaths in Sweden, a difference of 10 deaths.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 70 shared years of data; in 1955 it was Uruguay ahead.

Sweden ranks 144th and Uruguay ranks 142nd of 199 countries.

Across the 8 decades both report, Sweden averaged higher in 1 and Uruguay in 7.

Head to head by decade

Decade	Sweden	Uruguay	Difference	Ahead
1950s	2,198 deaths	3,267 deaths	1,069 deaths	Uruguay
1960s	1,863 deaths	3,267 deaths	1,404 deaths	Uruguay
1970s	1,150 deaths	3,034 deaths	1,884 deaths	Uruguay
1980s	758.4 deaths	1,629 deaths	870.2 deaths	Uruguay
1990s	581.9 deaths	1,166 deaths	583.7 deaths	Uruguay
2000s	358.3 deaths	726.3 deaths	368 deaths	Uruguay
2010s	324.4 deaths	418 deaths	93.6 deaths	Uruguay
2020s	269.6 deaths	257.4 deaths	12.2 deaths	Sweden

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher number of child deaths, Sweden or Uruguay?: Uruguay, at 250 deaths against 240 deaths in Sweden as of 2024.
What is the difference in number of child deaths between Sweden and Uruguay?: 10 deaths, with Uruguay ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Sweden and Uruguay?: 70 years are reported by both, from 1955 to 2024.
How do Sweden and Uruguay rank globally for number of child deaths?: Sweden ranks 144th and Uruguay ranks 142nd 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

Sweden vs Uruguay: Number of child deaths. Statizoid, drawing on United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (2025) – processed by Our World in Data. Retrieved 07 September 2026, from https://health.statizoid.com/compare/number-of-child-deaths-igme/sweden/uruguay/

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/sweden/uruguay/">Sweden vs Uruguay: 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 .