Bahrain vs Malaysia: Child mortality vs. health spending

Bahrain

0.8767 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Malaysia

0.8309 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Bahrain rank

134th

Malaysia rank

137th

Child mortality vs. health spending over time

Bahrain
Malaysia

How they compare

Bahrain currently reports 0.8767 deaths per 100 live births against 0.8309 deaths per 100 live births in Malaysia, a difference of 0.0458 deaths per 100 live births.

That makes Bahrain's figure about 1.1 times Malaysia's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 70 shared years of data; in 1955 it was Bahrain ahead.

Globally, Bahrain ranks 134th and Malaysia ranks 137th of 199 countries.

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About this data

Indicator: Child mortality vs. health spending
Unit: deaths per 100 live births
Source: United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (2025) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 199 places, 13,255 data points, 1931–2024
Last refreshed: 06 August 2026

The estimated number of deaths of children aged under five years, per 100 live births .