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Mortality rate, infant, male (per 1,000 live births)

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

World Bank code: SP.DYN.IMRT.MA.IN • Data available for 196 countries • Latest year: 2024

In , South Sudan led Mortality rate, infant, male (per 1,000 live births) at 77.30.

The world median across 196 reporting countries was 13.60.

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

How "Health & Population" indicators are measured

Health and population indicators come from national vital-registration systems, demographic and health surveys, and modeling by the UN Population Division and WHO. Mortality and morbidity estimates are often modeled rather than directly observed in lower-capacity statistical systems, which means some figures are interpolations between survey years. Life expectancy is a "period" measure based on current age-specific mortality, not a forecast of how long someone born today will actually live.

Distribution — 2024

Reporting
196 countries
Median
13.60
Mean
20.35
25th percentile
5.10
75th percentile
31.50
Range
1.30 – 77.30

World at a Glance — 2024

Every reporting country, grouped by region, shaded by value (quintile).

East Asia & PacificAustralia: 3.30AUBrunei Darussalam: 9.20BNCambodia: 18.20KHChina: 4.30CNFiji: 25.80FJIndonesia: 16.70IDJapan: 1.90JPKiribati: 42.90KIKorea, Dem. People's Rep.: 14.70KPKorea, Rep.: 2.50KRLao PDR: 30.60LAMalaysia: 7.60MYMarshall Islands: 25.10MHMicronesia, Fed. Sts.: 22.90FMMongolia: 12.40MNMyanmar: 36.10MMNauru: 8.40NRNew Zealand: 4.30NZPalau: 20.60PWPapua New Guinea: 33.90PGPhilippines: 24.00PHSamoa: 13.60WSSingapore: 2.30SGSolomon Islands: 17.80SBThailand: 8.60THTimor-Leste: 38.20TLTonga: 8.60TOTuvalu: 18.40TVVanuatu: 15.40VUViet Nam: 13.40VNEurope & Central AsiaAlbania: 9.10ALAndorra: 2.70ADArmenia: 9.30AMAustria: 3.00ATAzerbaijan: 13.30AZBelarus: 2.00BYBelgium: 3.50BEBosnia and Herzegovina: 5.90BABulgaria: 5.00BGCroatia: 4.50HRCyprus: 4.40CYCzechia: 2.30CZDenmark: 3.80DKEstonia: 1.70EEFinland: 2.00FIFrance: 3.70FRGeorgia: 8.10GEGermany: 3.30DEGreece: 3.50GRHungary: 3.40HUIceland: 2.30ISIreland: 3.70IEItaly: 2.50ITKazakhstan: 8.30KZKosovo: 8.70XKKyrgyz Republic: 16.50KGLatvia: 2.30LVLithuania: 3.10LTLuxembourg: 2.00LUMoldova: 16.80MDMonaco: 2.40MCMontenegro: 2.00MENetherlands: 3.70NLNorth Macedonia: 2.60MKNorway: 2.30NOPoland: 4.00PLPortugal: 2.90PTRomania: 6.50RORussian Federation: 4.50RUSan Marino: 1.30SMSerbia: 5.10RSSlovak Republic: 5.90SKSlovenia: 2.00SISpain: 2.80ESSweden: 2.10SESwitzerland: 3.70CHTajikistan: 26.40TJTurkiye: 8.70TRTurkmenistan: 34.90TMUkraine: 8.40UAUnited Kingdom: 4.60GBUzbekistan: 14.40UZLatin America & CaribbeanAntigua and Barbuda: 7.60AGArgentina: 8.90ARBahamas, The: 11.90BSBarbados: 9.70BBBelize: 11.90BZBolivia: 15.60BOBrazil: 13.60BRBritish Virgin Islands: 11.30VGChile: 6.20CLColombia: 11.60COCosta Rica: 9.80CRCuba: 7.60CUDominica: 35.50DMDominican Republic: 30.10DOEcuador: 12.40ECEl Salvador: 9.70SVGrenada: 17.80GDGuatemala: 19.10GTGuyana: 26.10GYHaiti: 43.10HTHonduras: 14.10HNJamaica: 18.40JMMexico: 13.30MXNicaragua: 10.40NIPanama: 13.00PAParaguay: 15.90PYPeru: 12.00PESt. Kitts and Nevis: 15.40KNSt. Lucia: 17.20LCSt. Vincent and the Grenadines: 11.10VCSuriname: 16.50SRTrinidad and Tobago: 18.60TTTurks and Caicos Islands: 3.20TCUruguay: 6.90UYVenezuela, RB: 23.00VEMiddle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & PakistanAfghanistan: 52.00AFAlgeria: 21.20DZBahrain: 7.50BHDjibouti: 46.90DJEgypt, Arab Rep.: 22.30EGIran, Islamic Rep.: 10.90IRIraq: 22.00IQIsrael: 2.90ILJordan: 13.10JOKuwait: 7.50KWLebanon: 16.60LBLibya: 8.60LYMalta: 5.00MTMorocco: 16.20MAOman: 9.10OMPakistan: 53.30PKQatar: 5.10QASaudi Arabia: 4.90SASyrian Arab Republic: 19.40SYTunisia: 10.40TNUnited Arab Emirates: 4.10AEWest Bank and Gaza: 17.90PSYemen, Rep.: 37.10YENorth AmericaCanada: 5.10CAUnited States: 5.90USSouth AsiaBangladesh: 26.10BDBhutan: 15.20BTIndia: 23.60INMaldives: 5.10MVNepal: 24.10NPSri Lanka: 5.70LKSub-Saharan AfricaAngola: 35.80AOBenin: 49.80BJBotswana: 35.50BWBurkina Faso: 47.90BFBurundi: 33.90BICabo Verde: 11.60CVCameroon: 44.60CMCentral African Republic: 64.90CFChad: 61.80TDComoros: 38.00KMCongo, Dem. Rep.: 62.40CDCongo, Rep.: 29.70CGCote d'Ivoire: 50.40CIEquatorial Guinea: 52.40GQEritrea: 28.00EREswatini: 46.60SZEthiopia: 39.60ETGabon: 29.10GAGambia, The: 36.70GMGhana: 30.70GHGuinea: 66.00GNGuinea-Bissau: 46.80GWKenya: 37.60KELesotho: 62.10LSLiberia: 69.60LRMadagascar: 47.30MGMalawi: 42.20MWMali: 51.60MLMauritania: 33.40MRMauritius: 15.30MUMozambique: 47.30MZNamibia: 40.00NANiger: 70.60NENigeria: 76.00NGRwanda: 32.30RWSao Tome and Principe: 10.10STSenegal: 32.50SNSeychelles: 13.80SCSierra Leone: 59.50SLSomalia, Fed. Rep.: 70.60SOSouth Africa: 26.10ZASouth Sudan: 77.30SSSudan: 47.20SDTanzania: 31.50TZTogo: 38.30TGUganda: 39.70UGZambia: 38.10ZMZimbabwe: 68.60ZW

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Highest Values — 2024

# Country Mortality rate, infant, male (per 1,000 live births)
1 South Sudan Sub-Saharan Africa 77.30
2 Nigeria Sub-Saharan Africa 76.00
3 Somalia, Fed. Rep. Sub-Saharan Africa 70.60
4 Niger Sub-Saharan Africa 70.60
5 Liberia Sub-Saharan Africa 69.60
6 Zimbabwe Sub-Saharan Africa 68.60
7 Guinea Sub-Saharan Africa 66.00
8 Central African Republic Sub-Saharan Africa 64.90
9 Congo, Dem. Rep. Sub-Saharan Africa 62.40
10 Lesotho Sub-Saharan Africa 62.10

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Biggest Movers — Year over Year

Largest increases

Largest decreases

By Income Group — Average

Income group Countries Mean
High income 65 5.76
Upper middle income 54 14.90
Lower middle income 50 30.94
Low income 25 47.96
Not classified 2 31.30

By Region — Average

Region Countries Mean
East Asia & Pacific 30 16.72
Europe & Central Asia 52 6.00
Latin America & Caribbean 35 15.10
Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan 23 18.00
North America 2 5.50
South Asia 6 16.63
Sub-Saharan Africa 48 44.18

Lowest Values — 2024

# Country Mortality rate, infant, male (per 1,000 live births)
1 San Marino 1.30
2 Estonia 1.70
3 Japan 1.90
4 Finland 2.00
5 Luxembourg 2.00
6 Slovenia 2.00
7 Montenegro 2.00
8 Belarus 2.00
9 Sweden 2.10
10 Singapore 2.30
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Source: World Bank Open Data (SP.DYN.IMRT.MA.IN), CC BY 4.0. Rankings show countries with available data for 2024.