What is child mortality in Slovakia?

Child mortality in Slovakia was 0.6286 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 Slovakia?

The highest recorded value was 36.33 deaths per 100 live births in 1800.

What is the lowest child mortality recorded in Slovakia?

The lowest recorded value was 0.5922 deaths per 100 live births in 2019.

How does Slovakia rank for child mortality?

Slovakia ranks 148th out of 203 countries with data for 2024.

Is child mortality rising or falling in Slovakia?

Over the last ten years it is down 0.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is volatile.

Where does this Slovakia 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 Slovakia

Name: Child mortality in Slovakia
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)

Slovakia: Child mortality was 0.6286 deaths per 100 live births in 2024. ◆ Volatile

Latest (2024)

0.6286 deaths per 100 live births

Change on year

up 1.9%

World rank

148th

of 203 countries

All-time high

36.33 deaths per 100 live births

in 1800

All-time low

0.5922 deaths per 100 live births

in 2019

Years of data

225

1800–2024

Child mortality in Slovakia, 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 Slovakia stood at 0.6286 deaths per 100 live births.

That represents a change of up 1.9% on the previous year and down 0.5% over ten years.

Over the whole period, child mortality in Slovakia peaked at 36.33 deaths per 100 live births in 1800 and was at its lowest, 0.5922 deaths per 100 live births, in 2019.

Slovakia ranks 148th of 203 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.

The series is highly variable year to year, so single readings are best treated with caution.

Child mortality in Slovakia, year by year

Annual values for Child mortality in Slovakia, 1800 to 2024.
Year	deaths per 100 live births	Change
1800	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	—
1801	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1802	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1803	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1804	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1805	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1806	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1807	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1808	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1809	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1810	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1811	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1812	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1813	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1814	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1815	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1816	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1817	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1818	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1819	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1820	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1821	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1822	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1823	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1824	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1825	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1826	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1827	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1828	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1829	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1830	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1831	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1832	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1833	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1834	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1835	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1836	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1837	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1838	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1839	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1840	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1841	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1842	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1843	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1844	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1845	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1846	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1847	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1848	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1849	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1850	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1851	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1852	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1853	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1854	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1855	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1856	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1857	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1858	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1859	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1860	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1861	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1862	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1863	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1864	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1865	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1866	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1867	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1868	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1869	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1870	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1871	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1872	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1873	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1874	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1875	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1876	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1877	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1878	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1879	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1880	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1881	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1882	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1883	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1884	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1885	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1886	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1887	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1888	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1889	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1890	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1891	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1892	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1893	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	+0.0%
1894	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	-0.0%
1895	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	-0.0%
1896	35.97 deaths per 100 live births	-1.0%
1897	35.61 deaths per 100 live births	-1.0%
1898	35.25 deaths per 100 live births	-1.0%
1899	34.89 deaths per 100 live births	-1.0%
1900	34.52 deaths per 100 live births	-1.1%
1901	34.15 deaths per 100 live births	-1.1%
1902	33.77 deaths per 100 live births	-1.1%
1903	33.4 deaths per 100 live births	-1.1%
1904	33.02 deaths per 100 live births	-1.1%
1905	32.64 deaths per 100 live births	-1.1%
1906	32.26 deaths per 100 live births	-1.2%
1907	31.87 deaths per 100 live births	-1.2%
1908	31.48 deaths per 100 live births	-1.2%
1909	31.1 deaths per 100 live births	-1.2%
1910	30.71 deaths per 100 live births	-1.3%
1911	30.32 deaths per 100 live births	-1.3%
1912	29.94 deaths per 100 live births	-1.3%
1913	29.55 deaths per 100 live births	-1.3%
1914	29.17 deaths per 100 live births	-1.3%
1915	28.8 deaths per 100 live births	-1.3%
1916	28.42 deaths per 100 live births	-1.3%
1917	28.05 deaths per 100 live births	-1.3%
1918	27.68 deaths per 100 live births	-1.3%
1919	27.32 deaths per 100 live births	-1.3%
1920	26.95 deaths per 100 live births	-1.3%
1921	26.6 deaths per 100 live births	-1.3%
1922	25.95 deaths per 100 live births	-2.4%
1923	25.22 deaths per 100 live births	-2.8%
1924	24.6 deaths per 100 live births	-2.5%
1925	23.98 deaths per 100 live births	-2.5%
1926	23.28 deaths per 100 live births	-2.9%
1927	22.68 deaths per 100 live births	-2.6%
1928	22.1 deaths per 100 live births	-2.6%
1929	21.43 deaths per 100 live births	-3.0%
1930	20.86 deaths per 100 live births	-2.7%
1931	20.38 deaths per 100 live births	-2.3%
1932	19.99 deaths per 100 live births	-1.9%
1933	19.52 deaths per 100 live births	-2.3%
1934	19.06 deaths per 100 live births	-2.4%
1935	18.6 deaths per 100 live births	-2.4%
1936	18.23 deaths per 100 live births	-2.0%
1937	17.78 deaths per 100 live births	-2.5%
1938	17.26 deaths per 100 live births	-2.9%
1939	16.75 deaths per 100 live births	-3.0%
1940	16.25 deaths per 100 live births	-3.0%
1941	16.11 deaths per 100 live births	-0.8%
1942	15.97 deaths per 100 live births	-0.9%
1943	15.84 deaths per 100 live births	-0.8%
1944	15.7 deaths per 100 live births	-0.8%
1945	15.57 deaths per 100 live births	-0.8%
1946	15.44 deaths per 100 live births	-0.8%
1947	15.31 deaths per 100 live births	-0.8%
1948	15.18 deaths per 100 live births	-0.8%
1949	14.28 deaths per 100 live births	-5.9%
1950	12.17 deaths per 100 live births	-14.8%
1951	10.36 deaths per 100 live births	-14.8%
1952	8.86 deaths per 100 live births	-14.5%
1953	7.62 deaths per 100 live births	-13.9%
1954	6.62 deaths per 100 live births	-13.1%
1955	5.82 deaths per 100 live births	-12.2%
1956	5.17 deaths per 100 live births	-11.1%
1957	4.66 deaths per 100 live births	-9.9%
1958	4.24 deaths per 100 live births	-8.9%
1959	3.92 deaths per 100 live births	-7.7%
1960	3.66 deaths per 100 live births	-6.6%
1961	3.46 deaths per 100 live births	-5.4%
1962	3.31 deaths per 100 live births	-4.2%
1963	3.21 deaths per 100 live births	-3.1%
1964	3.14 deaths per 100 live births	-2.2%
1965	3.08 deaths per 100 live births	-1.6%
1966	3.05 deaths per 100 live births	-1.2%
1967	3.02 deaths per 100 live births	-1.0%
1968	3 deaths per 100 live births	-0.8%
1969	2.97 deaths per 100 live births	-0.7%
1970	2.95 deaths per 100 live births	-0.7%
1971	2.92 deaths per 100 live births	-1.0%
1972	2.89 deaths per 100 live births	-1.2%
1973	2.84 deaths per 100 live births	-1.6%
1974	2.78 deaths per 100 live births	-2.0%
1975	2.72 deaths per 100 live births	-2.4%
1976	2.64 deaths per 100 live births	-2.9%
1977	2.55 deaths per 100 live births	-3.3%
1978	2.46 deaths per 100 live births	-3.6%
1979	2.36 deaths per 100 live births	-3.9%
1980	2.27 deaths per 100 live births	-4.1%
1981	2.17 deaths per 100 live births	-4.1%
1982	2.08 deaths per 100 live births	-4.2%
1983	1.99 deaths per 100 live births	-4.2%
1984	1.91 deaths per 100 live births	-4.4%
1985	1.82 deaths per 100 live births	-4.6%
1986	1.73 deaths per 100 live births	-4.7%
1987	1.65 deaths per 100 live births	-4.5%
1988	1.59 deaths per 100 live births	-4.1%
1989	1.53 deaths per 100 live births	-3.7%
1990	1.47 deaths per 100 live births	-3.5%
1991	1.42 deaths per 100 live births	-3.7%
1992	1.37 deaths per 100 live births	-3.9%
1993	1.31 deaths per 100 live births	-4.1%
1994	1.25 deaths per 100 live births	-4.2%
1995	1.2 deaths per 100 live births	-4.4%
1996	1.15 deaths per 100 live births	-4.5%
1997	1.09 deaths per 100 live births	-4.5%
1998	1.05 deaths per 100 live births	-4.4%
1999	1 deaths per 100 live births	-4.2%
2000	0.9637 deaths per 100 live births	-3.8%
2001	0.933 deaths per 100 live births	-3.2%
2002	0.9076 deaths per 100 live births	-2.7%
2003	0.8834 deaths per 100 live births	-2.7%
2004	0.8584 deaths per 100 live births	-2.8%
2005	0.8309 deaths per 100 live births	-3.2%
2006	0.8005 deaths per 100 live births	-3.7%
2007	0.7689 deaths per 100 live births	-3.9%
2008	0.7388 deaths per 100 live births	-3.9%
2009	0.7114 deaths per 100 live births	-3.7%
2010	0.6882 deaths per 100 live births	-3.3%
2011	0.6698 deaths per 100 live births	-2.7%
2012	0.6554 deaths per 100 live births	-2.2%
2013	0.6431 deaths per 100 live births	-1.9%
2014	0.6317 deaths per 100 live births	-1.8%
2015	0.621 deaths per 100 live births	-1.7%
2016	0.6105 deaths per 100 live births	-1.7%
2017	0.6014 deaths per 100 live births	-1.5%
2018	0.5949 deaths per 100 live births	-1.1%
2019	0.5922 deaths per 100 live births	-0.4%
2020	0.5933 deaths per 100 live births	+0.2%
2021	0.5982 deaths per 100 live births	+0.8%
2022	0.6063 deaths per 100 live births	+1.4%
2023	0.6168 deaths per 100 live births	+1.7%
2024	0.6286 deaths per 100 live births	+1.9%

Slovakia compared with similar countries

Slovakia's 0.6286 deaths per 100 live births is above the median for high income countries, which is 0.4653 deaths per 100 live births, 1.4× the median. (67 countries reporting)
Slovakia's 0.6286 deaths per 100 live births is above the median for Europe & Central Asia, which is 0.3875 deaths per 100 live births, 1.6× the median. (52 countries reporting)

Averages by decade

Decade	Average	Lowest	Highest	Years
1800s	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	10
1810s	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	10
1820s	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	10
1830s	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	10
1840s	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	10
1850s	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	10
1860s	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	10
1870s	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	10
1880s	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	10
1890s	35.97 deaths per 100 live births	34.89 deaths per 100 live births	36.33 deaths per 100 live births	10
1900s	32.82 deaths per 100 live births	31.1 deaths per 100 live births	34.52 deaths per 100 live births	10
1910s	28.99 deaths per 100 live births	27.32 deaths per 100 live births	30.71 deaths per 100 live births	10
1920s	24.28 deaths per 100 live births	21.43 deaths per 100 live births	26.95 deaths per 100 live births	10
1930s	18.84 deaths per 100 live births	16.75 deaths per 100 live births	20.86 deaths per 100 live births	10
1940s	15.56 deaths per 100 live births	14.28 deaths per 100 live births	16.25 deaths per 100 live births	10
1950s	6.94 deaths per 100 live births	3.92 deaths per 100 live births	12.17 deaths per 100 live births	10
1960s	3.19 deaths per 100 live births	2.97 deaths per 100 live births	3.66 deaths per 100 live births	10
1970s	2.71 deaths per 100 live births	2.36 deaths per 100 live births	2.95 deaths per 100 live births	10
1980s	1.87 deaths per 100 live births	1.53 deaths per 100 live births	2.27 deaths per 100 live births	10
1990s	1.23 deaths per 100 live births	1 deaths per 100 live births	1.47 deaths per 100 live births	10
2000s	0.8397 deaths per 100 live births	0.7114 deaths per 100 live births	0.9637 deaths per 100 live births	10
2010s	0.6308 deaths per 100 live births	0.5922 deaths per 100 live births	0.6882 deaths per 100 live births	10
2020s	0.6087 deaths per 100 live births	0.5933 deaths per 100 live births	0.6286 deaths per 100 live births	5

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147 Montserrat 0.6354 deaths per 100 live births compare
149 Saudi Arabia 0.5958 deaths per 100 live births compare
150 Qatar 0.5885 deaths per 100 live births compare
151 Sri Lanka 0.5881 deaths per 100 live births compare

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Frequently asked questions

What is child mortality in Slovakia?: Child mortality in Slovakia was 0.6286 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 Slovakia?: The highest recorded value was 36.33 deaths per 100 live births in 1800.
What is the lowest child mortality recorded in Slovakia?: The lowest recorded value was 0.5922 deaths per 100 live births in 2019.
How does Slovakia rank for child mortality?: Slovakia ranks 148th out of 203 countries with data for 2024.
Is child mortality rising or falling in Slovakia?: Over the last ten years it is down 0.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is volatile.
Where does this Slovakia 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.

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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

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