Cameroon vs Mozambique: Number of child deaths per woman

Cameroon
0.2723 under-five deaths per woman
in 2024
Mozambique
0.2816 under-five deaths per woman
in 2024
Cameroon rank
18th
Mozambique rank
15th

Number of child deaths per woman over time

  • Cameroon
  • Mozambique
0.511.52195319882024

How they compare

Mozambique currently reports 0.2816 under-five deaths per woman against 0.2723 under-five deaths per woman in Cameroon, a difference of 0.0093 under-five deaths per woman.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 63 shared years of data; in 1962 it was Mozambique ahead.

Globally, Cameroon ranks 18th and Mozambique ranks 15th 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).