Cameroon vs Equatorial Guinea: Number of child deaths per woman

Cameroon
0.2723 under-five deaths per woman
in 2024
Equatorial Guinea
0.2739 under-five deaths per woman
in 2024
Cameroon rank
18th
Equatorial Guinea rank
17th

Number of child deaths per woman over time

  • Cameroon
  • Equatorial Guinea
0.511.52195319882024

How they compare

Equatorial Guinea currently reports 0.2739 under-five deaths per woman against 0.2723 under-five deaths per woman in Cameroon, a difference of 0.0016 under-five deaths per woman.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 43 shared years of data; in 1982 it was Equatorial Guinea ahead.

Globally, Cameroon ranks 18th and Equatorial Guinea ranks 17th 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).