Benin vs Liberia: Child mortality rate

Benin

7.47 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Liberia

8.64 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Benin rank

12th

Liberia rank

10th

Child mortality rate over time

Benin
Liberia

How they compare

Liberia currently reports 8.64 deaths per 100 live births against 7.47 deaths per 100 live births in Benin, a difference of 1.16 deaths per 100 live births.

That makes Liberia's figure about 1.2 times Benin's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 71 shared years of data; in 1954 it was Benin ahead.

Benin ranks 12th and Liberia ranks 10th of 199 countries.

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About this data

Indicator: Child 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, 13,255 data points, 1931–2024
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

The estimated number of deaths of children aged under five years, per 100 live births .