Guinea vs Sierra Leone: Child mortality rate

Guinea

9.21 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Sierra Leone

9.05 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Guinea rank

6th

Sierra Leone rank

7th

Child mortality rate over time

Guinea
Sierra Leone

How they compare

Guinea currently reports 9.21 deaths per 100 live births against 9.05 deaths per 100 live births in Sierra Leone, a difference of 0.1645 deaths per 100 live births.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 69 shared years of data; in 1956 it was Sierra Leone ahead.

Guinea ranks 6th and Sierra Leone ranks 7th 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 .