Gabon vs Iraq: Number of child deaths per woman

Gabon
0.1086 under-five deaths per woman
in 2024
Iraq
0.0861 under-five deaths per woman
in 2024
Gabon rank
51st
Iraq rank
53rd

Number of child deaths per woman over time

  • Gabon
  • Iraq
01234194219832024

How they compare

Gabon currently reports 0.1086 under-five deaths per woman against 0.0861 under-five deaths per woman in Iraq, a difference of 0.0226 under-five deaths per woman.

That makes Gabon's figure about 1.3 times Iraq's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 81 shared years of data; in 1944 it was Iraq ahead.

Globally, Gabon ranks 51st and Iraq ranks 53rd 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).