Cameroon vs Malawi: Mortality rate, infant

Cameroon

40.2 per 1,000 live births

in 2024

Malawi

38 per 1,000 live births

in 2024

Cameroon rank

26th

Malawi rank

29th

Mortality rate, infant over time

Cameroon currently reports 40.2 per 1,000 live births against 38 per 1,000 live births in Malawi, a difference of 2.2 per 1,000 live births.

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

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

Globally, Cameroon ranks 26th and Malawi ranks 29th of 195 countries.

Indicator: Mortality rate, infant (per 1,000 live births)
Unit: per 1,000 live births
Source: UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation, UN Children's Fund (UNICEF)
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage: 243 places, 13,475 data points, 1960–2024
Last refreshed: 06 August 2026

Infant mortality rate is the number of infants dying before reaching one year of age, per 1,000 live births in a given year.