Countries With the Lowest Infant Mortality

Every country with a figure for infant mortality, ranked from lowest to highest. The top three are San Marino (1.2), Estonia (1.5) and Belarus (1.8). 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 Highest Infant Mortality
• Infant mortality by country: trend over time and what it goes with

Related rankings

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