What is the difference in youth mortality rate between China and Sri Lanka?

0.0049 deaths per 100 live births, with Sri Lanka ahead.

How many years of comparable data are there for China and Sri Lanka?

53 years are reported by both, from 1972 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 Youth mortality rate. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

China vs Sri Lanka: Youth mortality rate

China

0.7409 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Sri Lanka

0.7458 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

China rank

151st

Sri Lanka rank

148th

Youth mortality rate over time

China
Sri Lanka

How they compare

Sri Lanka currently reports 0.7458 deaths per 100 live births against 0.7409 deaths per 100 live births in China, a difference of 0.0049 deaths per 100 live births.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 53 shared years of data; in 1972 it was China ahead.

China ranks 151st and Sri Lanka ranks 148th of 199 countries.

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

Head to head by decade

Decade	China	Sri Lanka	Difference	Ahead
1970s	9.67 deaths per 100 live births	7.58 deaths per 100 live births	2.09 deaths per 100 live births	China
1980s	6.53 deaths per 100 live births	4.17 deaths per 100 live births	2.36 deaths per 100 live births	China
1990s	5.3 deaths per 100 live births	2.61 deaths per 100 live births	2.69 deaths per 100 live births	China
2000s	2.92 deaths per 100 live births	2.23 deaths per 100 live births	0.6899 deaths per 100 live births	China
2010s	1.36 deaths per 100 live births	1.17 deaths per 100 live births	0.1968 deaths per 100 live births	China
2020s	0.8359 deaths per 100 live births	0.8086 deaths per 100 live births	0.0273 deaths per 100 live births	China

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher youth mortality rate, China or Sri Lanka?: Sri Lanka, at 0.7458 deaths per 100 live births against 0.7409 deaths per 100 live births in China as of 2024.
What is the difference in youth mortality rate between China and Sri Lanka?: 0.0049 deaths per 100 live births, with Sri Lanka ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for China and Sri Lanka?: 53 years are reported by both, from 1972 to 2024.
How do China and Sri Lanka rank globally for youth mortality rate?: China ranks 151st and Sri Lanka ranks 148th 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 Youth mortality rate. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

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Indicator: Youth 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, 9,824 data points, 1950–2024
Last refreshed: 30 October 2026

Estimated number of deaths of children aged under fifteen years, per 100 live births.