Kenya vs Madagascar: Number of under-five deaths

Kenya
58,200
in 2024
Madagascar
61,923
in 2024
Kenya rank
21st
Madagascar rank
19th

Number of under-five deaths over time

  • Kenya
  • Madagascar
050.0k100.0k150.0k196019922024

How they compare

Madagascar currently reports 61,923 against 58,200 in Kenya, a difference of 3,723.

That makes Madagascar's figure about 1.1 times Kenya's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 48 shared years of data; in 1977 it was Kenya ahead.

Globally, Kenya ranks 21st and Madagascar ranks 19th of 195 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Number of under-five deaths
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, 13,069 data points, 1960–2024
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Number of children dying before reaching age five.