Countries With the Highest Infant Mortality

Every country with a figure for infant mortality, ranked from highest to lowest. The top three are South Sudan (71.9), Nigeria (69.8) and Niger (65.6). The middle country of the 196 has 12.5.

What this measures

Mortality rate, infant (per 1,000 live births). Source: World Bank. For this measure, higher is worse.

This measure mostly follows how rich a country is, so this ranking is close to a ranking by national income. Each country’s page also ranks it against countries with similar incomes, which is often the fairer comparison.

The full ranking

Each country’s latest figure, from 2024–2024. The year beside each value says when it was measured.

More on infant mortality

• Countries With the Lowest Infant Mortality
• Infant mortality by country: trend over time and what it goes with

Related rankings

• Countries With the Highest Life Expectancy
• Countries With the Highest Under-5 Mortality
• Countries With the Highest Health Spending
• Countries With the Highest Suicide Rates
• Countries With the Highest Hospital Beds
• Countries With the Highest Basic Water Access
• Countries With the Highest Basic Sanitation
• Countries With the Highest Child Stunting

A ranking describes countries, not the people in them, and a high or low place does not by itself say why. All country rankings.