Kuwait vs Malaysia: Number of child deaths per woman

Kuwait
0.0154 under-five deaths per woman
in 2024
Malaysia
0.0159 under-five deaths per woman
in 2024
Kuwait rank
135th
Malaysia rank
133rd

Number of child deaths per woman over time

  • Kuwait
  • Malaysia
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How they compare

Malaysia currently reports 0.0159 under-five deaths per woman against 0.0154 under-five deaths per woman in Kuwait, a difference of 0.0005 under-five deaths per woman.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 66 shared years of data; in 1959 it was Kuwait ahead.

Globally, Kuwait ranks 135th and Malaysia ranks 133rd 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).