India vs Nepal: Child mortality vs. health spending

India

2.66 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Nepal

2.51 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

India rank

63rd

Nepal rank

66th

Child mortality vs. health spending over time

India
Nepal

How they compare

India currently reports 2.66 deaths per 100 live births against 2.51 deaths per 100 live births in Nepal, a difference of 0.1463 deaths per 100 live births.

That makes India's figure about 1.1 times Nepal's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 72 shared years of data; in 1953 it was Nepal ahead.

Globally, India ranks 63rd and Nepal ranks 66th 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 .