Child Mortality — World Ranking

Children who die before the age of five, for every 1,000 live births — the single strongest signal of how well a health system works.

Malaysia sits at #136 of 195 countries with a value of 8.3 per 1,000 births — the full leaderboard is in the table below.

The top 50 — Child 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	Nigeria	116.8 per 1,000 births
2	Niger	113.5 per 1,000 births
3	Somalia	104.3 per 1,000 births
4	Chad	100.6 per 1,000 births
5	South Sudan	96.7 per 1,000 births
6	Guinea	95 per 1,000 births
7	Sierra Leone	93.8 per 1,000 births
8	Central African Republic	92.6 per 1,000 births
9	DR Congo	91.3 per 1,000 births
10	Liberia	87.3 per 1,000 births
11	Burkina Faso	77.4 per 1,000 births
12	Benin	77.2 per 1,000 births
13	Mali	76.2 per 1,000 births
14	Equatorial Guinea	70.4 per 1,000 births
15	Guinea-Bissau	69.7 per 1,000 births
16	Cameroon	67 per 1,000 births
17	Ivory Coast	66.5 per 1,000 births
18	Zimbabwe	64.2 per 1,000 births
19	Madagascar	63.6 per 1,000 births
20	Sudan	63.1 per 1,000 births
21	Mozambique	61.7 per 1,000 births
22	Lesotho	61.3 per 1,000 births
23	Togo	58.1 per 1,000 births
24	Pakistan	57.8 per 1,000 births
25	Afghanistan	54.9 per 1,000 births
26	Kiribati	54.5 per 1,000 births
27	Haiti	54.4 per 1,000 births
28	Ethiopia	51.5 per 1,000 births
29	Angola	50.5 per 1,000 births
30	Djibouti	50.5 per 1,000 births
31	Malawi	49.6 per 1,000 births
32	Uganda	49.4 per 1,000 births
33	Timor-Leste	49.2 per 1,000 births
34	Zambia	49.1 per 1,000 births
35	Burundi	48.7 per 1,000 births
36	Eswatini	46.2 per 1,000 births
37	Gambia	43.8 per 1,000 births
38	Palestine	41.9 per 1,000 births
39	Namibia	41.1 per 1,000 births
40	Papua New Guinea	40.6 per 1,000 births
41	Republic of the Congo	40.3 per 1,000 births
42	Comoros	40.2 per 1,000 births
43	Turkmenistan	40.2 per 1,000 births
44	Kenya	39.6 per 1,000 births
45	Yemen	39.5 per 1,000 births
46	Rwanda	38.8 per 1,000 births
47	Tanzania	38.5 per 1,000 births
48	Senegal	38.2 per 1,000 births
49	Myanmar	38.1 per 1,000 births
50	Mauritania	38.1 per 1,000 births

Global distribution

Source: World Bank Open Data (indicator SH.DYN.MORT, 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.