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Chad vs Nigeria: Number of child deaths per woman

Chad
0.5028 under-five deaths per woman
in 2024
Nigeria
0.5759 under-five deaths per woman
in 2024
Chad rank
4th
Nigeria rank
2nd

Number of child deaths per woman over time

  • Chad
  • Nigeria
0.511.522.5194419842024

How they compare

Nigeria currently reports 0.5759 under-five deaths per woman against 0.5028 under-five deaths per woman in Chad, a difference of 0.0731 under-five deaths per woman.

That makes Nigeria's figure about 1.1 times Chad's.

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

Globally, Chad ranks 4th and Nigeria ranks 2nd 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).