Madagascar vs Sudan: Number of child deaths per woman

Madagascar
0.2353 under-five deaths per woman
in 2024
Sudan
0.2501 under-five deaths per woman
in 2024
Madagascar rank
23rd
Sudan rank
20th

Number of child deaths per woman over time

  • Madagascar
  • Sudan
00.511.52195319882024

How they compare

Sudan currently reports 0.2501 under-five deaths per woman against 0.2353 under-five deaths per woman in Madagascar, a difference of 0.0149 under-five deaths per woman.

That makes Sudan's figure about 1.1 times Madagascar's.

The two have swapped places 11 times across 60 shared years of data; in 1965 it was Madagascar ahead.

Globally, Madagascar ranks 23rd and Sudan ranks 20th 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).