What is child mortality in Peru?

Child mortality in Peru was 1.29 deaths per 100 live births in 2024, according to Gapminder (2015); UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (2025) – processed by Our World in Data.

What is the highest child mortality recorded in Peru?

The highest recorded value was 37.16 deaths per 100 live births in 1800.

What is the lowest child mortality recorded in Peru?

The lowest recorded value was 1.29 deaths per 100 live births in 2024.

How does Peru rank for child mortality?

Peru ranks 110th out of 203 countries with data for 2024.

Is child mortality rising or falling in Peru?

Over the last ten years it is down 24.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.

Where does this Peru data come from?

The figures come from Gapminder (2015); UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (2025) – processed by Our World in Data, published as part of Child mortality. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.

Child mortality in Peru

Name: Child mortality in Peru
Creator: Gapminder (2015); UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (2025) – processed by Our World in Data
License: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)

Peru: Child mortality was 1.29 deaths per 100 live births in 2024. ▼ Falling

Latest (2024)

1.29 deaths per 100 live births

Change on year

down 3.0%

World rank

110th

of 203 countries

All-time high

37.16 deaths per 100 live births

in 1800

All-time low

1.29 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Years of data

225

1800–2024

Child mortality in Peru, 1800–2024

Source: Gapminder (2015); UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (2025) – processed by Our World in Data. Measured in deaths per 100 live births.

Analysis

In 2024, child mortality in Peru stood at 1.29 deaths per 100 live births. That is the lowest value across all 225 years on record.

The figure is down 3.0% on the previous year and down 24.8% over ten years.

Over the whole period, child mortality in Peru peaked at 37.16 deaths per 100 live births in 1800 and was at its lowest, 1.29 deaths per 100 live births, in 2024.

Peru ranks 110th of 203 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.

The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 225 years of available data.

Child mortality in Peru, year by year

Annual values for Child mortality in Peru, 1800 to 2024.
Year	deaths per 100 live births	Change
1800	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	—
1801	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1802	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1803	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1804	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1805	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1806	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1807	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1808	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1809	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1810	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1811	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1812	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1813	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1814	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1815	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1816	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1817	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1818	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1819	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1820	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1821	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1822	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1823	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1824	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1825	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1826	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1827	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1828	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1829	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1830	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1831	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1832	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1833	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1834	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1835	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1836	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1837	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1838	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1839	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1840	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1841	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1842	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1843	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1844	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1845	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1846	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1847	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1848	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1849	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1850	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1851	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1852	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1853	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1854	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1855	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1856	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1857	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1858	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1859	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1860	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1861	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1862	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1863	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1864	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1865	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1866	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1867	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1868	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1869	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1870	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1871	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1872	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1873	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1874	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1875	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1876	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1877	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1878	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1879	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1880	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1881	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1882	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1883	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1884	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1885	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1886	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1887	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1888	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1889	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1890	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1891	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1892	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1893	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1894	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	-0.0%
1895	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	-0.0%
1896	37.15 deaths per 100 live births	-0.0%
1897	37.14 deaths per 100 live births	-0.0%
1898	37.13 deaths per 100 live births	-0.0%
1899	37.11 deaths per 100 live births	-0.1%
1900	37.08 deaths per 100 live births	-0.1%
1901	37.05 deaths per 100 live births	-0.1%
1902	37.01 deaths per 100 live births	-0.1%
1903	36.97 deaths per 100 live births	-0.1%
1904	36.92 deaths per 100 live births	-0.1%
1905	36.86 deaths per 100 live births	-0.2%
1906	36.8 deaths per 100 live births	-0.2%
1907	36.73 deaths per 100 live births	-0.2%
1908	36.66 deaths per 100 live births	-0.2%
1909	36.58 deaths per 100 live births	-0.2%
1910	36.5 deaths per 100 live births	-0.2%
1911	36.42 deaths per 100 live births	-0.2%
1912	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	-0.2%
1913	36.24 deaths per 100 live births	-0.2%
1914	36.16 deaths per 100 live births	-0.2%
1915	36.07 deaths per 100 live births	-0.2%
1916	35.98 deaths per 100 live births	-0.2%
1917	35.9 deaths per 100 live births	-0.2%
1918	35.81 deaths per 100 live births	-0.2%
1919	35.72 deaths per 100 live births	-0.2%
1920	35.63 deaths per 100 live births	-0.2%
1921	35.55 deaths per 100 live births	-0.2%
1922	35.46 deaths per 100 live births	-0.2%
1923	35.37 deaths per 100 live births	-0.2%
1924	35.29 deaths per 100 live births	-0.2%
1925	35.2 deaths per 100 live births	-0.2%
1926	35.11 deaths per 100 live births	-0.2%
1927	35.02 deaths per 100 live births	-0.3%
1928	34.94 deaths per 100 live births	-0.2%
1929	34.85 deaths per 100 live births	-0.2%
1930	34.76 deaths per 100 live births	-0.2%
1931	34.66 deaths per 100 live births	-0.3%
1932	34.56 deaths per 100 live births	-0.3%
1933	34.46 deaths per 100 live births	-0.3%
1934	34.35 deaths per 100 live births	-0.3%
1935	34.25 deaths per 100 live births	-0.3%
1936	34.15 deaths per 100 live births	-0.3%
1937	34.05 deaths per 100 live births	-0.3%
1938	33.95 deaths per 100 live births	-0.3%
1939	33.84 deaths per 100 live births	-0.3%
1940	33.74 deaths per 100 live births	-0.3%
1941	32.89 deaths per 100 live births	-2.5%
1942	31.95 deaths per 100 live births	-2.9%
1943	31.81 deaths per 100 live births	-0.4%
1944	31.67 deaths per 100 live births	-0.4%
1945	31.54 deaths per 100 live births	-0.4%
1946	31.4 deaths per 100 live births	-0.4%
1947	31.26 deaths per 100 live births	-0.4%
1948	31.13 deaths per 100 live births	-0.4%
1949	30.99 deaths per 100 live births	-0.4%
1950	30.86 deaths per 100 live births	-0.4%
1951	30.72 deaths per 100 live births	-0.4%
1952	31.01 deaths per 100 live births	+0.9%
1953	29.68 deaths per 100 live births	-4.3%
1954	28.39 deaths per 100 live births	-4.3%
1955	27.16 deaths per 100 live births	-4.3%
1956	26.11 deaths per 100 live births	-3.9%
1957	25.2 deaths per 100 live births	-3.5%
1958	24.44 deaths per 100 live births	-3.0%
1959	23.75 deaths per 100 live births	-2.8%
1960	23.11 deaths per 100 live births	-2.7%
1961	22.46 deaths per 100 live births	-2.8%
1962	21.79 deaths per 100 live births	-3.0%
1963	21.08 deaths per 100 live births	-3.2%
1964	20.36 deaths per 100 live births	-3.4%
1965	19.66 deaths per 100 live births	-3.5%
1966	18.99 deaths per 100 live births	-3.4%
1967	18.36 deaths per 100 live births	-3.3%
1968	17.79 deaths per 100 live births	-3.1%
1969	17.25 deaths per 100 live births	-3.0%
1970	20.01 deaths per 100 live births	+16.0%
1971	16.24 deaths per 100 live births	-18.8%
1972	15.76 deaths per 100 live births	-3.0%
1973	15.28 deaths per 100 live births	-3.0%
1974	14.81 deaths per 100 live births	-3.1%
1975	14.36 deaths per 100 live births	-3.0%
1976	13.98 deaths per 100 live births	-2.7%
1977	13.63 deaths per 100 live births	-2.5%
1978	13.32 deaths per 100 live births	-2.3%
1979	13.03 deaths per 100 live births	-2.2%
1980	12.73 deaths per 100 live births	-2.3%
1981	12.41 deaths per 100 live births	-2.6%
1982	12.03 deaths per 100 live births	-3.0%
1983	11.6 deaths per 100 live births	-3.6%
1984	11.11 deaths per 100 live births	-4.3%
1985	10.57 deaths per 100 live births	-4.8%
1986	10.02 deaths per 100 live births	-5.2%
1987	9.48 deaths per 100 live births	-5.4%
1988	8.97 deaths per 100 live births	-5.4%
1989	8.51 deaths per 100 live births	-5.2%
1990	8.06 deaths per 100 live births	-5.2%
1991	7.62 deaths per 100 live births	-5.5%
1992	7.18 deaths per 100 live births	-5.8%
1993	6.73 deaths per 100 live births	-6.3%
1994	6.27 deaths per 100 live births	-6.8%
1995	5.81 deaths per 100 live births	-7.3%
1996	5.36 deaths per 100 live births	-7.7%
1997	4.93 deaths per 100 live births	-7.9%
1998	4.53 deaths per 100 live births	-8.1%
1999	4.17 deaths per 100 live births	-8.1%
2000	3.83 deaths per 100 live births	-8.0%
2001	3.53 deaths per 100 live births	-7.8%
2002	3.27 deaths per 100 live births	-7.5%
2003	3.04 deaths per 100 live births	-7.0%
2004	2.84 deaths per 100 live births	-6.6%
2005	2.66 deaths per 100 live births	-6.2%
2006	2.5 deaths per 100 live births	-6.0%
2007	2.36 deaths per 100 live births	-5.7%
2008	2.23 deaths per 100 live births	-5.3%
2009	2.12 deaths per 100 live births	-5.0%
2010	2.02 deaths per 100 live births	-4.8%
2011	1.93 deaths per 100 live births	-4.5%
2012	1.85 deaths per 100 live births	-4.1%
2013	1.78 deaths per 100 live births	-3.8%
2014	1.72 deaths per 100 live births	-3.4%
2015	1.66 deaths per 100 live births	-3.2%
2016	1.61 deaths per 100 live births	-2.9%
2017	1.57 deaths per 100 live births	-2.7%
2018	1.53 deaths per 100 live births	-2.6%
2019	1.49 deaths per 100 live births	-2.6%
2020	1.45 deaths per 100 live births	-2.6%
2021	1.41 deaths per 100 live births	-2.7%
2022	1.37 deaths per 100 live births	-2.8%
2023	1.33 deaths per 100 live births	-3.0%
2024	1.29 deaths per 100 live births	-3.0%

Peru compared with similar countries

Peru's 1.29 deaths per 100 live births is below the median for upper middle income countries, which is 1.3 deaths per 100 live births, 99% of the median. (58 countries reporting)
Peru's 1.29 deaths per 100 live births is below the median for Latin America & Caribbean, which is 1.31 deaths per 100 live births, 99% of the median. (35 countries reporting)

Averages by decade

Decade	Average	Lowest	Highest	Years
1800s	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	10
1810s	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	10
1820s	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	10
1830s	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	10
1840s	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	10
1850s	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	10
1860s	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	10
1870s	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	10
1880s	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	10
1890s	37.15 deaths per 100 live births	37.11 deaths per 100 live births	37.16 deaths per 100 live births	10
1900s	36.87 deaths per 100 live births	36.58 deaths per 100 live births	37.08 deaths per 100 live births	10
1910s	36.11 deaths per 100 live births	35.72 deaths per 100 live births	36.5 deaths per 100 live births	10
1920s	35.24 deaths per 100 live births	34.85 deaths per 100 live births	35.63 deaths per 100 live births	10
1930s	34.3 deaths per 100 live births	33.84 deaths per 100 live births	34.76 deaths per 100 live births	10
1940s	31.84 deaths per 100 live births	30.99 deaths per 100 live births	33.74 deaths per 100 live births	10
1950s	27.73 deaths per 100 live births	23.75 deaths per 100 live births	31.01 deaths per 100 live births	10
1960s	20.08 deaths per 100 live births	17.25 deaths per 100 live births	23.11 deaths per 100 live births	10
1970s	15.04 deaths per 100 live births	13.03 deaths per 100 live births	20.01 deaths per 100 live births	10
1980s	10.74 deaths per 100 live births	8.51 deaths per 100 live births	12.73 deaths per 100 live births	10
1990s	6.07 deaths per 100 live births	4.17 deaths per 100 live births	8.06 deaths per 100 live births	10
2000s	2.84 deaths per 100 live births	2.12 deaths per 100 live births	3.83 deaths per 100 live births	10
2010s	1.72 deaths per 100 live births	1.49 deaths per 100 live births	2.02 deaths per 100 live births	10
2020s	1.37 deaths per 100 live births	1.29 deaths per 100 live births	1.45 deaths per 100 live births	5

Countries ranked near Peru

107 Cook Islands 1.33 deaths per 100 live births compare
108 Mexico 1.31 deaths per 100 live births compare
109 Jordan 1.29 deaths per 100 live births compare
111 Ecuador 1.29 deaths per 100 live births compare
112 Belize 1.27 deaths per 100 live births compare
113 British Virgin Islands 1.24 deaths per 100 live births compare

See the full ranking of 203 places →

More health data for Peru

Un projection of annual infant deaths, annual growth rate -1.88 % change on previous year (2100)
Heat deaths vs projected death rates, annual growth rate 0.5045 % change on previous year (2090)
Estimated changes in temperature-related death rates compared to projected death rates 1,235 deaths per 1,000 people (2090)
Number of infants who die before age 1 782 deaths (2100)
Neonatal tetanus - number of reported cases, gaps filled 2 (2025)
Population ages 00-04, female, annual growth rate -0.3081 % change on previous year (2025)
Population ages 00-04, female, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
Population ages 00-04, female, per capita 0.038 units per person (2025)
Population ages 00-04, male, annual growth rate -0.302 % change on previous year (2025)
Population ages 00-04, male, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)

All data for Peru →

Frequently asked questions

What is child mortality in Peru?: Child mortality in Peru was 1.29 deaths per 100 live births in 2024, according to Gapminder (2015); UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (2025) – processed by Our World in Data.
What is the highest child mortality recorded in Peru?: The highest recorded value was 37.16 deaths per 100 live births in 1800.
What is the lowest child mortality recorded in Peru?: The lowest recorded value was 1.29 deaths per 100 live births in 2024.
How does Peru rank for child mortality?: Peru ranks 110th out of 203 countries with data for 2024.
Is child mortality rising or falling in Peru?: Over the last ten years it is down 24.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
Where does this Peru data come from?: The figures come from Gapminder (2015); UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (2025) – processed by Our World in Data, published as part of Child mortality. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.

Download this data

CSV · JSON — 225 observations, free to reuse under CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data).

Share, cite or embed this page

Cite this page

Child mortality in Peru. Statizoid, drawing on Gapminder (2015); UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (2025) – processed by Our World in Data. Retrieved 22 September 2026, from https://health.statizoid.com/stat/child-mortality-complete-gapminder/peru/

Embed or link this data

Paste this into a page to link back to these figures. The data itself is free to reuse under CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data); please keep the attribution.

<a href="https://health.statizoid.com/stat/child-mortality-complete-gapminder/peru/">Child mortality in Peru</a> — Statizoid

About this data

Indicator: Child mortality
Unit: deaths per 100 live births
Source: Gapminder (2015); UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (2025) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 203 places, 42,924 data points, 1800–2024
Last refreshed: 18 September 2026

Estimated share of newborns who die before reaching the age of five.