Botswana vs Iraq: Number of child deaths per woman

Botswana
0.0809 under-five deaths per woman
in 2024
Iraq
0.0861 under-five deaths per woman
in 2024
Botswana rank
55th
Iraq rank
53rd

Number of child deaths per woman over time

  • Botswana
  • Iraq
01234194219832024

How they compare

Iraq currently reports 0.0861 under-five deaths per woman against 0.0809 under-five deaths per woman in Botswana, a difference of 0.0051 under-five deaths per woman.

That makes Iraq's figure about 1.1 times Botswana's.

The two have swapped places 6 times across 71 shared years of data; in 1954 it was Iraq ahead.

Globally, Botswana ranks 55th and Iraq ranks 53rd 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).