Infant Mortality — World Ranking

How many babies die before reaching their first birthday, for every 1,000 live births.

Malaysia sits at #137 of 195 countries with a value of 6.9 per 1,000 births — the full leaderboard is in the table below.

The top 50 — Infant Mortality

Sorted with the highest value first (a lower value counts as better), data year 2023. Flags: flagcdn; every country name links to its full profile.

#	Country	Value
1	South Sudan	71.9 per 1,000 births
2	Nigeria	70.1 per 1,000 births
3	Somalia	67.3 per 1,000 births
4	Niger	66.9 per 1,000 births
5	Liberia	63.6 per 1,000 births
6	Zimbabwe	62.2 per 1,000 births
7	Guinea	61.4 per 1,000 births
8	Central African Republic	60.8 per 1,000 births
9	Lesotho	58.4 per 1,000 births
10	Chad	58 per 1,000 births
11	DR Congo	57.2 per 1,000 births
12	Sierra Leone	56.3 per 1,000 births
13	Afghanistan	49.9 per 1,000 births
14	Pakistan	49.7 per 1,000 births
15	Mali	49.3 per 1,000 births
16	Equatorial Guinea	49.2 per 1,000 births
17	Benin	46.5 per 1,000 births
18	Ivory Coast	46.2 per 1,000 births
19	Burkina Faso	44.9 per 1,000 births
20	Mozambique	44.9 per 1,000 births
21	Eswatini	44.7 per 1,000 births
22	Djibouti	44.4 per 1,000 births
23	Sudan	44 per 1,000 births
24	Madagascar	43.7 per 1,000 births
25	Guinea-Bissau	43.4 per 1,000 births
26	Cameroon	41.3 per 1,000 births
27	Haiti	40.1 per 1,000 births
28	Kiribati	39.8 per 1,000 births
29	Ethiopia	38.7 per 1,000 births
30	Malawi	38.4 per 1,000 births
31	Namibia	38.3 per 1,000 births
32	Uganda	36.2 per 1,000 births
33	Comoros	36 per 1,000 births
34	Togo	35.9 per 1,000 births
35	Timor-Leste	35.7 per 1,000 births
36	Zambia	35 per 1,000 births
37	Yemen	34.9 per 1,000 births
38	Kenya	34.7 per 1,000 births
39	Myanmar	33.8 per 1,000 births
40	Gambia	33.7 per 1,000 births
41	Botswana	33.3 per 1,000 births
42	Dominica	33.1 per 1,000 births
43	Angola	33 per 1,000 births
44	Papua New Guinea	32.2 per 1,000 births
45	Burundi	31.4 per 1,000 births
46	Turkmenistan	31.3 per 1,000 births
47	Mauritania	31.1 per 1,000 births
48	Rwanda	30.1 per 1,000 births
49	Senegal	30 per 1,000 births
50	Tanzania	29.7 per 1,000 births

Global distribution

Source: World Bank Open Data (indicator SP.DYN.IMRT.IN, year 2023) — public data with no API key, licensed CC BY 4.0. The full profile of every country: Country Complex · live natural events: Disaster Complex.