Under-five mortality rate (UN IGME estimate, 2024) by country

Regions and income groups

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

• West and Central Africa 90.96
• World 37.37
• Sub-Saharan Africa 71.57
• World Bank Low Income 68.8
• Least developed countries 57.92
• Landlocked developing countries 52.72
• Eastern and Southern Africa 50.23
• World Bank Lower-Middle Income 43.8
• Oceania (exc. Australia and New Zealand) 36.17
• Small Island Developing States 35.16
• South Asia 33.47
• Southern Asia 32.79
• Northern Africa 32.15
• Central and Southern Asia 32.01
• Northern Africa and Western Asia 26.14
• Middle East and North Africa 20.5
• South-Eastern Asia 20.24
• Western Asia 20.11
• Oceania 18.93
• Central Asia 16.99
• Latin America and the Caribbean 15.35
• Latin America and Caribbean 15.35
• East Asia and Pacific 13.95
• World Bank Upper-Middle Income 13.12
• Eastern and South-Eastern Asia 13.02
• Eastern Europe and Central Asia 11.06
• Europe and Central Asia 7.78
• North America 6.38
• Northern America 6.38
• Eastern Asia 5.83
• Europe and Northern America 5.21
• World Bank High Income 5.09
• Europe 4.45
• Western Europe 3.8