France vs Malta: Number of child deaths per woman

France

0.0085 under-five deaths per woman

in 2024

Malta

0.0082 under-five deaths per woman

in 2024

France rank

160th

Malta rank

163rd

Number of child deaths per woman over time

France
Malta

How they compare

France currently reports 0.0085 under-five deaths per woman against 0.0082 under-five deaths per woman in Malta, a difference of 0.0003 under-five deaths per woman.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 75 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Malta ahead.

Globally, France ranks 160th and Malta ranks 163rd 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: 06 August 2026

The fertility rate (average number of children per woman) multiplied by the under-five mortality rate (probability of dying before age five).