Panama vs Samoa: Mortality rate, neonatal

Panama
5.3 per 1,000 live births
in 2024
Samoa
5.8 per 1,000 live births
in 2024
Panama rank
121st
Samoa rank
118th

Mortality rate, neonatal over time

  • Panama
  • Samoa
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How they compare

Samoa currently reports 5.8 per 1,000 live births against 5.3 per 1,000 live births in Panama, a difference of 0.5 per 1,000 live births.

That makes Samoa's figure about 1.1 times Panama's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 36 shared years of data; in 1989 it was Panama ahead.

Globally, Panama ranks 121st and Samoa ranks 118th of 195 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Mortality rate, neonatal (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, 11,715 data points, 1960–2024
Last refreshed

Neonatal mortality rate is the number of neonates dying before reaching 28 days of age, per 1,000 live births in a given year.