Australia vs Netherlands: Number of child deaths per woman

Australia
0.0065 under-five deaths per woman
in 2024
Netherlands
0.0069 under-five deaths per woman
in 2024
Australia rank
171st
Netherlands rank
168th

Number of child deaths per woman over time

  • Australia
  • Netherlands
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How they compare

Netherlands currently reports 0.0069 under-five deaths per woman against 0.0065 under-five deaths per woman in Australia, a difference of 0.0004 under-five deaths per woman.

That makes Netherlands's figure about 1.1 times Australia's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 155 shared years of data; in 1870 it was Netherlands ahead.

Globally, Australia ranks 171st and Netherlands ranks 168th of 200 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Number of child deaths per woman
Unit
under-five deaths per woman
Source
Gapminder (2015); UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (2025) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
200 places, 16,060 data points, 1800–2024
Last refreshed

The fertility rate (average number of children per woman) multiplied by the under-five mortality rate (probability of dying before age five).