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Madagascar vs Uganda: Number of child deaths per woman

Madagascar
0.2353 under-five deaths per woman
in 2024
Uganda
0.2387 under-five deaths per woman
in 2024
Madagascar rank
23rd
Uganda rank
21st

Number of child deaths per woman over time

  • Madagascar
  • Uganda
00.511.52195319882024

How they compare

Uganda currently reports 0.2387 under-five deaths per woman against 0.2353 under-five deaths per woman in Madagascar, a difference of 0.0034 under-five deaths per woman.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 60 shared years of data; in 1965 it was Uganda ahead.

Globally, Madagascar ranks 23rd and Uganda ranks 21st 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).