Kuwait vs Uruguay: Child mortality vs. health spending

Kuwait

0.8104 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Uruguay

0.7447 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Kuwait rank

139th

Uruguay rank

141st

Child mortality vs. health spending over time

Kuwait
Uruguay

How they compare

Kuwait currently reports 0.8104 deaths per 100 live births against 0.7447 deaths per 100 live births in Uruguay, a difference of 0.0657 deaths per 100 live births.

That makes Kuwait's figure about 1.1 times Uruguay's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 66 shared years of data; in 1959 it was Kuwait ahead.

Globally, Kuwait ranks 139th and Uruguay ranks 141st 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 .