Guatemala vs Palau: Number of child deaths per woman

Guatemala

0.0535 under-five deaths per woman

in 2024

Palau

0.0547 under-five deaths per woman

in 2021

Guatemala rank

74th

Palau rank

72nd

Number of child deaths per woman over time

Guatemala
Palau

How they compare

Palau currently reports 0.0547 under-five deaths per woman against 0.0535 under-five deaths per woman in Guatemala, a difference of 0.0012 under-five deaths per woman.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 57 shared years of data; in 1965 it was Guatemala ahead.

Globally, Guatemala ranks 74th and Palau ranks 72nd 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).