Countries with Highest Infant Mortality (2026)

South Sudan has the highest infant mortality rate at 71.9 deaths per 1,000 live births. Infant mortality is one of the most important indicators of a nation's healthcare system quality and overall development level.

#1

South Sudan

71.9 per 1,000

#2

Nigeria

69.8 per 1,000

#3

Niger

65.6 per 1,000

Countries with Highest Infant Mortality - 196 countries ranked by Infant Mortality

Rank	Country	Infant Mortality	Population	Region
1	South Sudan	71.9 per 1,000	11,943,408	Africa
2	Nigeria	69.8 per 1,000	232,679,478	Africa
3	Niger	65.6 per 1,000	27,032,412	Africa
4	Somalia	65.4 per 1,000	19,009,151	Africa
5	Liberia	63.2 per 1,000	5,612,817	Africa
6	Zimbabwe	62.4 per 1,000	16,634,373	Africa
7	Guinea	59.8 per 1,000	14,754,785	Africa
8	Central African Republic	58.8 per 1,000	5,330,690	Africa
9	DR Congo	56.4 per 1,000	109,276,265	Africa
10	Chad	56.3 per 1,000	20,299,123	Africa
11	Lesotho	56.3 per 1,000	2,337,423	Africa
12	Sierra Leone	54.6 per 1,000	8,642,022	Africa
13	Afghanistan	48.3 per 1,000	42,647,492	Asia
14	Pakistan	48.2 per 1,000	251,269,164	Asia
15	Equatorial Guinea	47.6 per 1,000	1,892,516	Africa
16	Mali	47.5 per 1,000	24,478,595	Africa
17	Benin	45.2 per 1,000	14,462,724	Africa
18	Ivory Coast	44.8 per 1,000	31,934,230	Africa
19	Mozambique	43.7 per 1,000	34,631,766	Africa
20	Burkina Faso	43.6 per 1,000	23,548,781	Africa
21	Madagascar	43.0 per 1,000	31,964,956	Africa
22	Djibouti	43.0 per 1,000	1,168,722	Africa
23	Sudan	42.9 per 1,000	50,448,963	Africa
24	Eswatini	42.2 per 1,000	1,242,822	Africa
25	Guinea-Bissau	42.1 per 1,000	2,201,352	Africa
26	Cameroon	40.2 per 1,000	29,123,744	Africa
27	Haiti	39.0 per 1,000	11,772,557	Americas
28	Kiribati	38.8 per 1,000	134,518	Oceania
29	Malawi	38.0 per 1,000	21,655,286	Africa
30	Namibia	36.4 per 1,000	3,030,131	Africa
31	Uganda	35.9 per 1,000	50,015,092	Africa
32	Comoros	35.0 per 1,000	866,628	Africa
33	Togo	34.8 per 1,000	9,515,236	Africa
34	Zambia	34.6 per 1,000	21,314,956	Africa
35	Timor-Leste	34.6 per 1,000	1,400,638	Asia
36	Ethiopia	34.5 per 1,000	132,059,767	Africa
37	Kenya	34.2 per 1,000	56,432,944	Africa
38	Yemen	33.8 per 1,000	40,583,164	Asia
39	Dominica	33.3 per 1,000	66,205	Americas
40	Myanmar	32.8 per 1,000	54,500,091	Asia
41	Gambia	32.7 per 1,000	2,759,988	Africa
42	Angola	32.1 per 1,000	37,885,849	Africa
43	Botswana	32.1 per 1,000	2,521,139	Africa
44	Papua New Guinea	31.3 per 1,000	10,576,502	Oceania
45	Burundi	30.5 per 1,000	14,047,786	Africa
46	Turkmenistan	30.4 per 1,000	7,494,498	Asia
47	Mauritania	30.2 per 1,000	5,169,395	Africa
48	Rwanda	29.4 per 1,000	14,256,567	Africa
49	Senegal	28.9 per 1,000	18,501,984	Africa
50	Tanzania	28.7 per 1,000	68,560,157	Africa
51	Dominican Republic	27.7 per 1,000	11,427,557	Americas
52	Ghana	27.5 per 1,000	34,427,414	Africa
53	Laos	27.2 per 1,000	7,769,819	Asia
54	Republic of the Congo	27.0 per 1,000	6,332,961	Africa
55	Gabon	25.9 per 1,000	2,538,952	Africa
56	Eritrea	24.7 per 1,000	3,535,603	Africa
57	Bangladesh	24.4 per 1,000	173,562,364	Asia
58	South Africa	24.2 per 1,000	64,007,187	Africa
59	Tajikistan	23.5 per 1,000	10,590,927	Asia
60	Fiji	23.5 per 1,000	928,784	Oceania
61	India	23.3 per 1,000	1,450,935,791	Asia
62	Guyana	23.2 per 1,000	831,087	Americas
63	Marshall Islands	22.7 per 1,000	37,548	Oceania
64	Nepal	22.2 per 1,000	29,651,054	Asia
65	Philippines	21.7 per 1,000	115,843,670	Asia
66	Venezuela	21.2 per 1,000	28,405,543	Americas
67	Egypt	20.8 per 1,000	116,538,258	Africa
68	Micronesia	20.3 per 1,000	113,160	Oceania
69	Iraq	20.1 per 1,000	46,042,015	Asia
70	Algeria	19.5 per 1,000	46,814,308	Africa
71	Palau	18.6 per 1,000	17,695	Oceania
72	Syria	17.7 per 1,000	24,672,760	Asia
73	Guatemala	17.2 per 1,000	18,406,359	Americas
74	Palestine	17.0 per 1,000	5,289,152	Asia
75	Trinidad and Tobago	17.0 per 1,000	1,368,333	Americas
76	Tuvalu	16.5 per 1,000	9,646	Oceania
77	Cambodia	16.4 per 1,000	17,638,801	Asia
78	Jamaica	16.4 per 1,000	2,839,175	Americas
79	Solomon Islands	16.4 per 1,000	819,198	Oceania
80	Grenada	16.4 per 1,000	117,207	Americas
81	Saint Lucia	15.8 per 1,000	179,744	Americas
82	Lebanon	15.3 per 1,000	5,805,962	Asia
83	Indonesia	15.2 per 1,000	283,487,931	Asia
84	Moldova	15.1 per 1,000	2,402,306	Europe
85	Kyrgyzstan	14.8 per 1,000	7,221,868	Asia
86	Suriname	14.8 per 1,000	634,431	Americas
87	Morocco	14.7 per 1,000	38,081,173	Africa
88	Paraguay	14.5 per 1,000	6,929,153	Americas
89	Vanuatu	14.4 per 1,000	327,777	Oceania
90	Bolivia	14.2 per 1,000	12,413,315	Americas
91	Saint Kitts and Nevis	13.9 per 1,000	46,843	Americas
92	Mauritius	13.8 per 1,000	1,245,779	Africa
93	Bhutan	13.7 per 1,000	791,524	Asia
94	North Korea	13.3 per 1,000	26,498,823	Asia
95	Seychelles	12.9 per 1,000	121,354	Africa
96	Uzbekistan	12.8 per 1,000	36,361,859	Asia
97	Honduras	12.8 per 1,000	10,825,703	Americas
98	Azerbaijan	12.5 per 1,000	10,202,830	Asia
99	Brazil	12.3 per 1,000	211,998,573	Americas
100	Samoa	12.3 per 1,000	218,019	Oceania
101	Mexico	12.1 per 1,000	130,861,007	Americas
102	Vietnam	12.0 per 1,000	100,987,686	Asia
103	Jordan	12.0 per 1,000	11,552,876	Asia
104	Panama	12.0 per 1,000	4,515,577	Americas
105	British Virgin Islands	11.4 per 1,000	39,471	Americas
106	Mongolia	11.2 per 1,000	3,524,788	Asia
107	Bahamas	11.1 per 1,000	401,283	Americas
108	Peru	11.0 per 1,000	34,217,848	Americas
109	Ecuador	10.9 per 1,000	18,135,478	Americas
110	Belize	10.8 per 1,000	417,072	Americas
111	Cape Verde	10.6 per 1,000	524,877	Africa
112	Colombia	10.5 per 1,000	52,886,363	Americas
113	Iran	10.3 per 1,000	91,567,738	Asia
114	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	10.2 per 1,000	100,616	Americas
115	Tunisia	9.7 per 1,000	12,277,109	Africa
116	Nicaragua	9.4 per 1,000	6,916,140	Americas
117	São Tomé and Príncipe	9.2 per 1,000	235,536	Africa
118	Costa Rica	9.1 per 1,000	5,129,910	Americas
119	Barbados	9.1 per 1,000	282,467	Americas
120	El Salvador	8.8 per 1,000	6,338,193	Americas
121	Brunei	8.6 per 1,000	462,721	Asia
122	Armenia	8.5 per 1,000	3,033,500	Asia
123	Oman	8.3 per 1,000	5,281,538	Asia
124	Albania	8.3 per 1,000	2,377,128	Europe
125	Turkey	8.0 per 1,000	85,518,661	Asia
126	Argentina	8.0 per 1,000	45,696,159	Americas
127	Kosovo	8.0 per 1,000	1,594,353	Europe
128	Libya	7.9 per 1,000	7,381,023	Africa
129	Tonga	7.8 per 1,000	104,175	Oceania
130	Thailand	7.7 per 1,000	71,668,011	Asia
131	Nauru	7.7 per 1,000	11,947	Oceania
132	Ukraine	7.6 per 1,000	37,860,221	Europe
133	Georgia	7.5 per 1,000	3,699,557	Asia
134	Kazakhstan	7.4 per 1,000	20,592,571	Asia
135	Bahrain	7.3 per 1,000	1,588,670	Asia
136	Malaysia	7.0 per 1,000	35,557,673	Asia
137	Kuwait	7.0 per 1,000	4,897,263	Asia
138	Antigua and Barbuda	7.0 per 1,000	93,772	Americas
139	Cuba	6.8 per 1,000	10,979,783	Americas
140	Uruguay	6.2 per 1,000	3,386,588	Americas
141	Romania	6.0 per 1,000	19,051,804	Europe
142	Chile	5.8 per 1,000	19,764,771	Americas
143	United States	5.5 per 1,000	340,110,988	Americas
144	Bosnia and Herzegovina	5.5 per 1,000	3,164,253	Europe
145	Slovakia	5.3 per 1,000	5,422,069	Europe
146	Sri Lanka	5.2 per 1,000	21,916,000	Asia
147	Qatar	4.8 per 1,000	2,857,822	Asia
148	Canada	4.7 per 1,000	41,288,599	Americas
149	Saudi Arabia	4.7 per 1,000	35,300,280	Asia
150	Malta	4.7 per 1,000	568,847	Europe
151	Maldives	4.7 per 1,000	527,799	Asia
152	Serbia	4.6 per 1,000	6,586,476	Europe
153	Bulgaria	4.6 per 1,000	6,441,421	Europe
154	China	4.1 per 1,000	1,408,975,000	Asia
155	Russia	4.1 per 1,000	143,533,851	Europe
156	United Kingdom	4.1 per 1,000	69,226,000	Europe
157	Croatia	4.1 per 1,000	3,866,200	Europe
158	Cyprus	4.1 per 1,000	1,358,282	Europe
159	New Zealand	4.0 per 1,000	5,287,500	Oceania
160	United Arab Emirates	3.8 per 1,000	10,986,400	Asia
161	Poland	3.6 per 1,000	36,559,233	Europe
162	Denmark	3.5 per 1,000	5,976,992	Europe
163	France	3.4 per 1,000	68,551,653	Europe
164	Netherlands	3.4 per 1,000	17,993,485	Europe
165	Switzerland	3.4 per 1,000	9,005,582	Europe
166	Ireland	3.4 per 1,000	5,395,790	Europe
167	Greece	3.2 per 1,000	10,405,134	Europe
168	Germany	3.1 per 1,000	83,516,593	Europe
169	Australia	3.1 per 1,000	27,196,812	Oceania
170	Belgium	3.1 per 1,000	11,858,610	Europe
171	Hungary	3.1 per 1,000	9,562,065	Europe
172	Turks and Caicos Islands	3.0 per 1,000	46,535	Americas
173	Austria	2.8 per 1,000	9,177,982	Europe
174	Lithuania	2.8 per 1,000	2,888,278	Europe
175	Portugal	2.7 per 1,000	10,694,681	Europe
176	Israel	2.7 per 1,000	9,974,400	Asia
177	Spain	2.6 per 1,000	48,848,840	Europe
178	North Macedonia	2.5 per 1,000	1,824,359	Europe
179	Andorra	2.4 per 1,000	81,938	Europe
180	Italy	2.3 per 1,000	58,952,704	Europe
181	South Korea	2.3 per 1,000	51,751,065	Asia
182	Singapore	2.2 per 1,000	6,036,860	Asia
183	Latvia	2.2 per 1,000	1,866,124	Europe
184	Monaco	2.2 per 1,000	38,631	Europe
185	Czechia	2.1 per 1,000	10,905,028	Europe
186	Iceland	2.1 per 1,000	386,506	Europe
187	Sweden	2.0 per 1,000	10,569,709	Europe
188	Norway	2.0 per 1,000	5,572,279	Europe
189	Finland	1.9 per 1,000	5,619,911	Europe
190	Luxembourg	1.9 per 1,000	677,012	Europe
191	Montenegro	1.9 per 1,000	623,525	Europe
192	Japan	1.8 per 1,000	123,975,371	Asia
193	Belarus	1.8 per 1,000	9,132,629	Europe
194	Slovenia	1.8 per 1,000	2,127,400	Europe
195	Estonia	1.5 per 1,000	1,372,341	Europe
196	San Marino	1.2 per 1,000	33,977	Europe