Malawi vs Pakistan: Number of child deaths per woman

Malawi
0.1976 under-five deaths per woman
in 2024
Pakistan
0.1696 under-five deaths per woman
in 2024
Malawi rank
29th
Pakistan rank
32nd

Number of child deaths per woman over time

  • Malawi
  • Pakistan
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How they compare

Malawi currently reports 0.1976 under-five deaths per woman against 0.1696 under-five deaths per woman in Pakistan, a difference of 0.028 under-five deaths per woman.

That makes Malawi's figure about 1.2 times Pakistan's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 64 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Malawi ahead.

Globally, Malawi ranks 29th and Pakistan ranks 32nd 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).