Gabon vs Laos: Child mortality vs. health spending

Gabon

3.26 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Laos

2.94 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Gabon rank

56th

Laos rank

59th

Child mortality vs. health spending over time

Gabon
Laos

How they compare

Gabon currently reports 3.26 deaths per 100 live births against 2.94 deaths per 100 live births in Laos, a difference of 0.3277 deaths per 100 live births.

That makes Gabon's figure about 1.1 times Laos's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 47 shared years of data; in 1978 it was Laos ahead.

Globally, Gabon ranks 56th and Laos ranks 59th 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 .