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Number of under-five deaths, per square kilometre by country

Number of under-five deaths divided by Land area (sq. km), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.

Countries reporting
195
Highest
1.03 units per square kilometre
Palestine
Lowest
0 units per square kilometre
San Marino
Median
0.0227 units per square kilometre
Years covered
63
1961–2023
Data points
12,018

What the numbers show

Number of under-five deaths, per square kilometre is currently reported for 195 countries. The highest value is 1.03 units per square kilometre in Palestine; the lowest is 0 units per square kilometre in San Marino.

The median across all reporting countries is 0.0227 units per square kilometre, and the mean is 0.0832 units per square kilometre.

Over the past decade 17 countries rose and 175 fell. The largest increase was in Palestine (up 124.7%), and the largest decrease in San Marino (down 100.0%).

Number of under-five deaths, per square kilometre: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Palestine 1.03 units per square kilometre 2023 up 124.7% falling
2 Nigeria 0.9412 units per square kilometre 2023 up 0.5% rising
3 Burundi 0.8607 units per square kilometre 2023 down 33.2% falling
4 Bangladesh 0.8133 units per square kilometre 2023 down 22.7% volatile
5 Rwanda 0.6174 units per square kilometre 2023 down 16.9% falling
6 Comoros 0.5212 units per square kilometre 2023 down 18.3% falling
7 Haiti 0.5099 units per square kilometre 2023 down 27.4% falling
8 Pakistan 0.5096 units per square kilometre 2023 down 25.8% flat
9 Monaco 0.4798 units per square kilometre 2023 down 2.7% falling
10 Uganda 0.4129 units per square kilometre 2023 down 6.1% flat
11 Gambia 0.3495 units per square kilometre 2023 down 29.1% falling
12 Malawi 0.3418 units per square kilometre 2023 down 14.7% falling
13 Sierra Leone 0.3307 units per square kilometre 2023 down 28.5% falling
14 Benin 0.3198 units per square kilometre 2023 down 11.3% rising
15 Togo 0.3033 units per square kilometre 2023 down 18.9% falling
16 Kiribati 0.2296 units per square kilometre 2023 down 5.1% falling
17 India 0.2186 units per square kilometre 2023 down 49.4% falling
18 Bahrain 0.2137 units per square kilometre 2023 up 9.7% volatile
19 Cote d'Ivoire 0.2051 units per square kilometre 2023 down 24.5% rising
20 Burkina Faso 0.2026 units per square kilometre 2023 down 27.9% falling
21 Guinea 0.1844 units per square kilometre 2023 down 6.7% falling
22 Ethiopia 0.1833 units per square kilometre 2023 down 11.5% falling
23 Democratic Republic of Congo 0.1689 units per square kilometre 2023 up 29.5% rising
24 Philippines 0.1671 units per square kilometre 2023 down 29.9% falling
25 Tuvalu 0.1667 units per square kilometre 2023 down 28.6% volatile
26 Singapore 0.1657 units per square kilometre 2023 down 9.2% volatile
27 Guinea-Bissau 0.1575 units per square kilometre 2023 down 26.7% falling
28 Lebanon 0.1563 units per square kilometre 2023 up 25.6% volatile
29 Liberia 0.1508 units per square kilometre 2023 down 5.7% falling
30 Nauru 0.15 units per square kilometre 2023 down 62.5% falling
31 Ghana 0.1437 units per square kilometre 2023 down 33.7% falling
32 Equatorial Guinea 0.1352 units per square kilometre 2023 down 17.5% rising
33 Marshall Islands 0.1333 units per square kilometre 2023 down 53.8% falling
34 Dominican Republic 0.133 units per square kilometre 2023 down 14.3% falling
35 Cameroon 0.1329 units per square kilometre 2023 down 17.7% rising
36 Somalia 0.126 units per square kilometre 2023 down 4.3% rising
37 Afghanistan 0.122 units per square kilometre 2023 down 17.0% falling
38 Maldives 0.1141 units per square kilometre 2023 down 59.7% volatile
39 Lesotho 0.1117 units per square kilometre 2023 down 29.3% falling
40 Madagascar 0.1071 units per square kilometre 2023 up 14.8% falling
41 Nepal 0.1051 units per square kilometre 2023 down 41.6% volatile
42 Senegal 0.1031 units per square kilometre 2023 down 27.0% falling
43 Yemen 0.1013 units per square kilometre 2023 up 7.2% falling
44 Kenya 0.1009 units per square kilometre 2023 down 20.7% falling
45 East Timor 0.1009 units per square kilometre 2023 down 30.0% volatile
46 Tanzania 0.0996 units per square kilometre 2023 down 17.0% falling
47 Mozambique 0.0962 units per square kilometre 2023 down 9.3% falling
48 Sao Tome and Principe 0.0938 units per square kilometre 2023 down 52.6% falling
49 Niger 0.0935 units per square kilometre 2023 up 9.9% flat
50 Mauritius 0.0926 units per square kilometre 2023 down 14.4% volatile
51 Micronesia (country) 0.0829 units per square kilometre 2023 down 30.1% falling
52 Zimbabwe 0.0815 units per square kilometre 2023 down 1.9% rising
53 Vietnam 0.081 units per square kilometre 2023 down 28.2% volatile
54 Eswatini 0.0795 units per square kilometre 2023 down 31.2% falling
55 Guatemala 0.0745 units per square kilometre 2023 down 35.7% falling
56 Barbados 0.0744 units per square kilometre 2023 down 28.9% volatile
57 Grenada 0.0735 units per square kilometre 2023 down 16.7% volatile
58 Malta 0.0719 units per square kilometre 2023 down 17.9% volatile
59 Chad 0.0623 units per square kilometre 2023 down 6.6% rising
60 Trinidad and Tobago 0.0614 units per square kilometre 2023 down 30.2% volatile
61 Iraq 0.0595 units per square kilometre 2023 down 29.6% falling
62 Saint Lucia 0.0574 units per square kilometre 2023 down 14.6% volatile
63 Mali 0.0573 units per square kilometre 2023 down 23.2% falling
64 Tajikistan 0.0565 units per square kilometre 2023 down 9.0% falling
65 Jamaica 0.0558 units per square kilometre 2023 down 19.1% volatile
66 Sudan 0.0556 units per square kilometre 2023 up 15.0% flat
67 Egypt 0.0549 units per square kilometre 2023 down 25.6% volatile
68 Angola 0.0544 units per square kilometre 2023 down 7.3% falling
69 Seychelles 0.0543 units per square kilometre 2023 up 4.2% volatile
70 Syria 0.054 units per square kilometre 2023 down 56.5% falling
71 Myanmar 0.0528 units per square kilometre 2023 down 32.3% falling
72 Djibouti 0.0518 units per square kilometre 2023 down 27.8% falling
73 North Korea 0.0515 units per square kilometre 2023 down 23.4% volatile
74 El Salvador 0.0502 units per square kilometre 2023 down 44.8% volatile
75 South Sudan 0.0488 units per square kilometre 2023 down 23.0% volatile
76 Zambia 0.0443 units per square kilometre 2023 down 14.9% rising
77 Indonesia 0.0437 units per square kilometre 2023 down 43.3% volatile
78 Cambodia 0.0394 units per square kilometre 2023 down 45.0% falling
79 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0.0385 units per square kilometre 2023 down 54.5% volatile
80 Jordan 0.0353 units per square kilometre 2023 down 10.6% falling
81 Dominica 0.0347 units per square kilometre 2023 unchanged volatile
82 Saint Kitts and Nevis 0.0346 units per square kilometre 2023 down 30.8% volatile
83 South Africa 0.0339 units per square kilometre 2023 down 16.1% falling
84 Tonga 0.0333 units per square kilometre 2023 down 33.3% volatile
85 Central African Republic 0.0323 units per square kilometre 2023 down 25.5% volatile
86 Honduras 0.0321 units per square kilometre 2023 down 25.3% falling
87 Sri Lanka 0.0321 units per square kilometre 2023 down 43.2% volatile
88 Samoa 0.0309 units per square kilometre 2023 down 21.8% volatile
89 Azerbaijan 0.0299 units per square kilometre 2023 down 57.6% volatile
90 Uzbekistan 0.029 units per square kilometre 2023 down 16.8% volatile
91 Eritrea 0.0284 units per square kilometre 2023 down 29.1% falling
92 Israel 0.0272 units per square kilometre 2023 down 13.0% falling
93 Fiji 0.0268 units per square kilometre 2023 up 19.3% falling
94 British Virgin Islands 0.0267 units per square kilometre 2023 unchanged volatile
95 Morocco 0.0231 units per square kilometre 2023 down 42.5% volatile
96 Kuwait 0.023 units per square kilometre 2023 down 27.2% volatile
97 Papua New Guinea 0.0228 units per square kilometre 2023 down 20.9% falling
98 Antigua and Barbuda 0.0227 units per square kilometre 2023 down 23.1% volatile
99 Congo 0.0219 units per square kilometre 2023 down 24.0% rising
100 Laos 0.0215 units per square kilometre 2023 down 40.4% falling
101 Turkey 0.02 units per square kilometre 2023 down 19.1% volatile
102 Netherlands 0.0198 units per square kilometre 2023 down 9.2% volatile
103 Cape Verde 0.0186 units per square kilometre 2023 down 65.4% volatile
104 Moldova 0.0162 units per square kilometre 2023 down 31.5% volatile
105 Solomon Islands 0.0157 units per square kilometre 2023 down 9.3% falling
106 Nicaragua 0.0152 units per square kilometre 2023 down 32.1% volatile
107 Qatar 0.0151 units per square kilometre 2023 down 4.5% falling
108 Panama 0.0146 units per square kilometre 2023 down 20.0% falling
109 Ecuador 0.0144 units per square kilometre 2023 down 32.6% volatile
110 Tunisia 0.0143 units per square kilometre 2023 down 43.6% volatile
111 Mexico 0.0142 units per square kilometre 2023 down 31.8% volatile
112 Turkmenistan 0.0139 units per square kilometre 2023 down 2.0% falling
113 Kyrgyzstan 0.0134 units per square kilometre 2023 down 31.8% falling
114 Belgium 0.0134 units per square kilometre 2023 down 23.4% falling
115 United Kingdom 0.0131 units per square kilometre 2023 down 14.7% volatile
116 Vanuatu 0.0129 units per square kilometre 2023 down 0.6% falling
117 Armenia 0.0123 units per square kilometre 2023 down 51.5% volatile
118 Brunei 0.012 units per square kilometre 2023 down 11.3% volatile
119 Venezuela 0.0117 units per square kilometre 2023 down 1.2% falling
120 Malaysia 0.011 units per square kilometre 2023 down 10.8% volatile
121 Thailand 0.0108 units per square kilometre 2023 down 45.9% volatile
122 Costa Rica 0.0105 units per square kilometre 2023 down 20.6% volatile
123 Albania 0.0099 units per square kilometre 2023 down 30.6% volatile
124 Gabon 0.009 units per square kilometre 2023 down 17.5% falling
125 Palau 0.0087 units per square kilometre 2023 down 20.0% falling
126 Iran 0.0086 units per square kilometre 2023 down 42.7% volatile
127 Algeria 0.0085 units per square kilometre 2023 down 18.6% volatile
128 Switzerland 0.0082 units per square kilometre 2023 down 8.7% volatile
129 Germany 0.0078 units per square kilometre 2023 up 0.2% volatile
130 Cuba 0.0077 units per square kilometre 2023 up 4.6% volatile
131 Colombia 0.0076 units per square kilometre 2023 down 29.9% volatile
132 South Korea 0.0073 units per square kilometre 2023 down 57.0% volatile
133 Cyprus 0.0073 units per square kilometre 2023 up 91.4% volatile
134 United Arab Emirates 0.007 units per square kilometre 2023 down 30.5% falling
135 Slovakia 0.0068 units per square kilometre 2023 down 12.1% falling
136 China 0.0066 units per square kilometre 2023 down 73.5% volatile
137 Mauritania 0.0063 units per square kilometre 2023 down 10.8% falling
138 Paraguay 0.0058 units per square kilometre 2023 down 25.5% falling
139 Luxembourg 0.0058 units per square kilometre 2023 unchanged falling
140 Georgia 0.0057 units per square kilometre 2023 down 40.5% volatile
141 Denmark 0.0056 units per square kilometre 2023 down 3.4% volatile
142 Peru 0.0056 units per square kilometre 2023 down 28.6% volatile
143 Romania 0.0055 units per square kilometre 2023 down 40.4% volatile
144 Bahamas 0.0055 units per square kilometre 2023 down 27.6% falling
145 France 0.0054 units per square kilometre 2023 down 10.5% volatile
146 Japan 0.0052 units per square kilometre 2023 down 38.6% volatile
147 Bhutan 0.0047 units per square kilometre 2023 down 57.3% volatile
148 Brazil 0.0045 units per square kilometre 2023 down 22.7% volatile
149 Poland 0.0045 units per square kilometre 2023 down 32.1% volatile
150 Belize 0.004 units per square kilometre 2023 down 27.0% falling
151 Bolivia 0.0039 units per square kilometre 2023 down 45.9% volatile
152 Serbia 0.0039 units per square kilometre 2023 down 28.8% falling
153 Namibia 0.0038 units per square kilometre 2023 down 10.6% falling
154 Botswana 0.0037 units per square kilometre 2023 down 27.4% falling
155 Italy 0.0037 units per square kilometre 2023 down 44.0% volatile
156 Hungary 0.0037 units per square kilometre 2023 down 33.5% volatile
157 Bulgaria 0.0034 units per square kilometre 2023 down 42.1% volatile
158 Czechia 0.0033 units per square kilometre 2023 down 24.6% falling
159 Austria 0.0032 units per square kilometre 2023 down 12.7% volatile
160 Ukraine 0.0031 units per square kilometre 2023 down 65.8% falling
161 Portugal 0.003 units per square kilometre 2023 down 14.6% volatile
162 Ireland 0.003 units per square kilometre 2023 down 25.7% volatile
163 Croatia 0.003 units per square kilometre 2023 down 19.8% falling
164 Bosnia and Herzegovina 0.0029 units per square kilometre 2023 down 30.7% volatile
165 Oman 0.0027 units per square kilometre 2023 up 1.2% volatile
166 United States 0.0026 units per square kilometre 2023 down 12.3% volatile
167 North Macedonia 0.0025 units per square kilometre 2023 down 76.7% volatile
168 Libya 0.0023 units per square kilometre 2023 up 99.7% volatile
169 Greece 0.0023 units per square kilometre 2023 down 29.1% volatile
170 Spain 0.0022 units per square kilometre 2023 down 29.6% volatile
171 Andorra 0.0021 units per square kilometre 2023 down 66.7% volatile
172 Turks and Caicos Islands 0.0021 units per square kilometre 2023 down 33.3% falling
173 Slovenia 0.0021 units per square kilometre 2023 down 31.1% falling
174 Guyana 0.0021 units per square kilometre 2023 down 30.4% falling
175 Argentina 0.0018 units per square kilometre 2023 down 47.6% volatile
176 Chile 0.0017 units per square kilometre 2023 down 36.4% volatile
177 Saudi Arabia 0.0015 units per square kilometre 2023 down 41.9% volatile
178 Kazakhstan 0.0015 units per square kilometre 2023 down 29.3% volatile
179 Uruguay 0.0014 units per square kilometre 2023 down 45.4% volatile
180 Montenegro 0.0013 units per square kilometre 2023 down 55.0% volatile
181 Lithuania 0.0012 units per square kilometre 2023 down 51.5% volatile
182 Suriname 0.0011 units per square kilometre 2023 down 28.3% falling
183 New Zealand 0.0011 units per square kilometre 2023 down 19.0% volatile
184 Belarus 0.0009 units per square kilometre 2023 down 66.2% volatile
185 Latvia 0.0007 units per square kilometre 2023 down 65.6% volatile
186 Sweden 0.0006 units per square kilometre 2023 down 23.3% volatile
187 Mongolia 0.0006 units per square kilometre 2023 down 41.4% volatile
188 Estonia 0.0006 units per square kilometre 2023 down 50.1% volatile
189 Russia 0.0004 units per square kilometre 2023 down 60.4% falling
190 Norway 0.0003 units per square kilometre 2023 down 26.1% volatile
191 Finland 0.0003 units per square kilometre 2023 down 32.7% volatile
192 Canada 0.0002 units per square kilometre 2023 down 6.8% volatile
193 Australia 0.0001 units per square kilometre 2023 down 12.1% volatile
194 Iceland 0.0001 units per square kilometre 2023 up 7.7% volatile
195 San Marino 0 units per square kilometre 2023 down 100.0% volatile

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Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

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Number of under-five deaths divided by Land area (sq. km), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.

Number of under-five deaths ÷ Land area (sq. km)

Computed from

  • Number of under-five deaths UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation, UN Children's Fund (UNICEF)
  • Land area FAOSTAT, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

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Indicator
Number of under-five deaths, per square kilometre
Unit
units per square kilometre
Source
Statizoid (derived)
Licence
Derived by Statizoid from the sources named on the page
Coverage
242 places, 12,018 data points, 1961–2023
Last refreshed

Number of under-five deaths divided by Land area (sq. km), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.