Guinea vs Lesotho: Mortality rate, infant

Guinea
59.8 per 1,000 live births
in 2024
Lesotho
56.3 per 1,000 live births
in 2024
Guinea rank
7th
Lesotho rank
10th

Mortality rate, infant over time

  • Guinea
  • Lesotho
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How they compare

Guinea currently reports 59.8 per 1,000 live births against 56.3 per 1,000 live births in Lesotho, a difference of 3.5 per 1,000 live births.

That makes Guinea's figure about 1.1 times Lesotho's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 65 shared years of data; in 1960 it was Guinea ahead.

Globally, Guinea ranks 7th and Lesotho ranks 10th of 195 countries.

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About this data

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

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