Gabon vs Namibia: Number of child deaths per woman

Gabon
0.1086 under-five deaths per woman
in 2024
Namibia
0.1188 under-five deaths per woman
in 2024
Gabon rank
51st
Namibia rank
50th

Number of child deaths per woman over time

  • Gabon
  • Namibia
00.511.52194419842024

How they compare

Namibia currently reports 0.1188 under-five deaths per woman against 0.1086 under-five deaths per woman in Gabon, a difference of 0.0101 under-five deaths per woman.

That makes Namibia's figure about 1.1 times Gabon's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 59 shared years of data; in 1960 it was Gabon ahead.

Globally, Gabon ranks 51st and Namibia ranks 50th 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).