Ghana vs Kenya: Number of child deaths per woman

Ghana
0.1281 under-five deaths per woman
in 2024
Kenya
0.1329 under-five deaths per woman
in 2024
Ghana rank
44th
Kenya rank
42nd

Number of child deaths per woman over time

  • Ghana
  • Kenya
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How they compare

Kenya currently reports 0.1329 under-five deaths per woman against 0.1281 under-five deaths per woman in Ghana, a difference of 0.0048 under-five deaths per woman.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 75 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Kenya ahead.

Globally, Ghana ranks 44th and Kenya ranks 42nd 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).