Cyprus vs Malta: Child mortality vs. health spending

Cyprus

0.4979 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Malta

0.5335 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Cyprus rank

160th

Malta rank

158th

Child mortality vs. health spending over time

Cyprus
Malta

How they compare

Malta currently reports 0.5335 deaths per 100 live births against 0.4979 deaths per 100 live births in Cyprus, a difference of 0.0356 deaths per 100 live births.

That makes Malta's figure about 1.1 times Cyprus's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 54 shared years of data; in 1971 it was Cyprus ahead.

Globally, Cyprus ranks 160th and Malta ranks 158th 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 .