Cameroon vs Uganda: Number of child deaths per woman

Cameroon
0.2723 under-five deaths per woman
in 2024
Uganda
0.2387 under-five deaths per woman
in 2024
Cameroon rank
18th
Uganda rank
21st

Number of child deaths per woman over time

  • Cameroon
  • Uganda
00.511.52195319882024

How they compare

Cameroon currently reports 0.2723 under-five deaths per woman against 0.2387 under-five deaths per woman in Uganda, a difference of 0.0336 under-five deaths per woman.

That makes Cameroon's figure about 1.1 times Uganda's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 72 shared years of data; in 1953 it was Cameroon ahead.

Globally, Cameroon ranks 18th and Uganda ranks 21st 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).