Zambia vs Zimbabwe: Number of child deaths per woman

Zambia
0.2201 under-five deaths per woman
in 2024
Zimbabwe
0.2095 under-five deaths per woman
in 2024
Zambia rank
26th
Zimbabwe rank
27th

Number of child deaths per woman over time

  • Zambia
  • Zimbabwe
00.511.5195219882024

How they compare

Zambia currently reports 0.2201 under-five deaths per woman against 0.2095 under-five deaths per woman in Zimbabwe, a difference of 0.0106 under-five deaths per woman.

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

The two have swapped places 2 times across 72 shared years of data; in 1953 it was Zambia ahead.

Globally, Zambia ranks 26th 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).