Botswana vs Eritrea: Child mortality vs. health spending

Botswana

3.33 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Eritrea

3.43 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Botswana rank

55th

Eritrea rank

54th

Child mortality vs. health spending over time

Botswana
Eritrea

How they compare

Eritrea currently reports 3.43 deaths per 100 live births against 3.33 deaths per 100 live births in Botswana, a difference of 0.0986 deaths per 100 live births.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 51 shared years of data; in 1974 it was Eritrea ahead.

Globally, Botswana ranks 55th and Eritrea ranks 54th 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 .