Belgium vs Netherlands: Number of child deaths per woman

Belgium
0.0068 under-five deaths per woman
in 2024
Netherlands
0.0069 under-five deaths per woman
in 2024
Belgium rank
169th
Netherlands rank
168th

Number of child deaths per woman over time

  • Belgium
  • Netherlands
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How they compare

Netherlands currently reports 0.0069 under-five deaths per woman against 0.0068 under-five deaths per woman in Belgium, a difference of 0.0001 under-five deaths per woman.

The two have swapped places 13 times across 185 shared years of data; in 1840 it was Belgium ahead.

Globally, Belgium ranks 169th 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).