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Eritrea vs Ghana: Number of child deaths per woman

Eritrea
0.1238 under-five deaths per woman
in 2024
Ghana
0.1281 under-five deaths per woman
in 2024
Eritrea rank
47th
Ghana rank
44th

Number of child deaths per woman over time

  • Eritrea
  • Ghana
00.511.522.5193219782024

How they compare

Ghana currently reports 0.1281 under-five deaths per woman against 0.1238 under-five deaths per woman in Eritrea, a difference of 0.0043 under-five deaths per woman.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 56 shared years of data; in 1969 it was Eritrea ahead.

Globally, Eritrea ranks 47th and Ghana ranks 44th 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).