Chad vs Niger: Number of child deaths per woman

Chad
0.5028 under-five deaths per woman
in 2024
Niger
0.7429 under-five deaths per woman
in 2024
Chad rank
4th
Niger rank
1st

Number of child deaths per woman over time

  • Chad
  • Niger
0.511.522.5194419842024

How they compare

Niger currently reports 0.7429 under-five deaths per woman against 0.5028 under-five deaths per woman in Chad, a difference of 0.2401 under-five deaths per woman.

That makes Niger's figure about 1.5 times Chad's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 58 shared years of data; in 1967 it was Niger ahead.

Globally, Chad ranks 4th and Niger ranks 1st 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).