Statizoid

Mozambique vs Sierra Leone: Number of child deaths per woman

Mozambique
0.2816 under-five deaths per woman
in 2024
Sierra Leone
0.3376 under-five deaths per woman
in 2024
Mozambique rank
15th
Sierra Leone rank
12th

Number of child deaths per woman over time

  • Mozambique
  • Sierra Leone
0.511.522.5195619902024

How they compare

Sierra Leone currently reports 0.3376 under-five deaths per woman against 0.2816 under-five deaths per woman in Mozambique, a difference of 0.0559 under-five deaths per woman.

That makes Sierra Leone's figure about 1.2 times Mozambique's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 63 shared years of data; in 1962 it was Sierra Leone ahead.

Globally, Mozambique ranks 15th and Sierra Leone ranks 12th 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).