Kenya vs Rwanda: Number of child deaths per woman

Kenya
0.1329 under-five deaths per woman
in 2024
Rwanda
0.1264 under-five deaths per woman
in 2024
Kenya rank
42nd
Rwanda rank
45th

Number of child deaths per woman over time

  • Kenya
  • Rwanda
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How they compare

Kenya currently reports 0.1329 under-five deaths per woman against 0.1264 under-five deaths per woman in Rwanda, a difference of 0.0064 under-five deaths per woman.

That makes Kenya's figure about 1.1 times Rwanda's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 71 shared years of data; in 1954 it was Rwanda ahead.

Globally, Kenya ranks 42nd and Rwanda ranks 45th 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).