What is the difference in youth mortality rate between Cyprus and New Zealand?

0.0186 deaths per 100 live births, with Cyprus ahead.

How many years of comparable data are there for Cyprus and New Zealand?

42 years are reported by both, from 1983 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.

Cyprus vs New Zealand: Youth mortality rate

Cyprus

0.5914 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

New Zealand

0.5728 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Cyprus rank

162nd

New Zealand rank

163rd

Youth mortality rate over time

Cyprus
New Zealand

How they compare

Cyprus currently reports 0.5914 deaths per 100 live births against 0.5728 deaths per 100 live births in New Zealand, a difference of 0.0186 deaths per 100 live births.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 42 shared years of data; in 1983 it was Cyprus ahead.

Cyprus ranks 162nd and New Zealand ranks 163rd of 199 countries.

New Zealand has averaged higher in every one of the 5 decades both report.

Head to head by decade

Decade	Cyprus	New Zealand	Difference	Ahead
1980s	1.5 deaths per 100 live births	1.61 deaths per 100 live births	0.1068 deaths per 100 live births	New Zealand
1990s	1.11 deaths per 100 live births	1.13 deaths per 100 live births	0.023 deaths per 100 live births	New Zealand
2000s	0.6628 deaths per 100 live births	0.8297 deaths per 100 live births	0.167 deaths per 100 live births	New Zealand
2010s	0.3952 deaths per 100 live births	0.683 deaths per 100 live births	0.2878 deaths per 100 live births	New Zealand
2020s	0.5096 deaths per 100 live births	0.5967 deaths per 100 live births	0.0871 deaths per 100 live births	New Zealand

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher youth mortality rate, Cyprus or New Zealand?: Cyprus, at 0.5914 deaths per 100 live births against 0.5728 deaths per 100 live births in New Zealand as of 2024.
What is the difference in youth mortality rate between Cyprus and New Zealand?: 0.0186 deaths per 100 live births, with Cyprus ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Cyprus and New Zealand?: 42 years are reported by both, from 1983 to 2024.
How do Cyprus and New Zealand rank globally for youth mortality rate?: Cyprus ranks 162nd and New Zealand ranks 163rd 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: 28 August 2026

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