Democratic Republic of Congo vs Guinea: Child mortality rate

Democratic Republic of Congo

8.97 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Guinea

9.21 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Democratic Republic of Congo rank

9th

Guinea rank

6th

Child mortality rate over time

Democratic Republic of Congo
Guinea

How they compare

Guinea currently reports 9.21 deaths per 100 live births against 8.97 deaths per 100 live births in Democratic Republic of Congo, a difference of 0.2467 deaths per 100 live births.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 56 shared years of data; in 1969 it was Guinea ahead.

Democratic Republic of Congo ranks 9th and Guinea ranks 6th 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 .