Malawi vs Zimbabwe: Number of child deaths per woman

Malawi
0.1976 under-five deaths per woman
in 2024
Zimbabwe
0.2095 under-five deaths per woman
in 2024
Malawi rank
29th
Zimbabwe rank
27th

Number of child deaths per woman over time

  • Malawi
  • Zimbabwe
00.511.522.5195319882024

How they compare

Zimbabwe currently reports 0.2095 under-five deaths per woman against 0.1976 under-five deaths per woman in Malawi, a difference of 0.0119 under-five deaths per woman.

That makes Zimbabwe's figure about 1.1 times Malawi's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 64 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Malawi ahead.

Globally, Malawi ranks 29th and Zimbabwe ranks 27th 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).