Lesotho vs Senegal: Number of child deaths per woman

Lesotho
0.1655 under-five deaths per woman
in 2024
Senegal
0.1549 under-five deaths per woman
in 2024
Lesotho rank
34th
Senegal rank
37th

Number of child deaths per woman over time

  • Lesotho
  • Senegal
00.511.522.5194419842024

How they compare

Lesotho currently reports 0.1655 under-five deaths per woman against 0.1549 under-five deaths per woman in Senegal, a difference of 0.0106 under-five deaths per woman.

That makes Lesotho's figure about 1.1 times Senegal's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 75 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Senegal ahead.

Globally, Lesotho ranks 34th and Senegal ranks 37th 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).