Countries with Highest Infant Mortality (2026)

South Sudan has the highest infant mortality rate at 72.6 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

72.6 per 1,000

#2

Somalia

67.8 per 1,000

#3

Niger

67.4 per 1,000

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

Rank	Country	Infant Mortality	Population	Region
1	South Sudan	72.6 per 1,000	15,786,898	Africa
2	Somalia	67.8 per 1,000	19,655,000	Africa
3	Niger	67.4 per 1,000	26,312,034	Africa
4	Guinea	61.5 per 1,000	14,363,931	Africa
5	Central African Republic	60.4 per 1,000	6,470,307	Africa
6	Nigeria	60.1 per 1,000	223,800,000	Africa
7	Chad	58.7 per 1,000	19,340,757	Africa
8	Mali	57.6 per 1,000	22,395,489	Africa
9	Sierra Leone	56.2 per 1,000	9,077,691	Africa
10	Lesotho	55.4 per 1,000	2,116,427	Africa
11	Liberia	52.6 per 1,000	5,248,621	Africa
12	Afghanistan	50.4 per 1,000	43,844,000	Asia
13	Pakistan	50.1 per 1,000	241,499,431	Asia
14	Equatorial Guinea	49.1 per 1,000	1,668,768	Africa
15	Ivory Coast	46.6 per 1,000	31,719,275	Africa
16	Benin	46.4 per 1,000	13,224,860	Africa
17	Mozambique	45.4 per 1,000	34,090,466	Africa
18	Burkina Faso	44.8 per 1,000	24,070,553	Africa
19	DR Congo	44.5 per 1,000	112,832,000	Africa
20	Djibouti	44.4 per 1,000	1,066,809	Africa
21	Madagascar	44.2 per 1,000	31,727,042	Africa
22	Eswatini	43.5 per 1,000	1,235,549	Africa
23	Guinea-Bissau	43.1 per 1,000	1,781,308	Africa
24	Cameroon	41.2 per 1,000	29,442,327	Africa
25	Zimbabwe	40.6 per 1,000	17,073,087	Africa
26	Haiti	40.3 per 1,000	11,867,032	Americas
27	Kiribati	39.7 per 1,000	120,740	Oceania
28	Sudan	39.2 per 1,000	51,662,000	Africa
29	Namibia	38.4 per 1,000	3,022,401	Africa
30	Angola	38.3 per 1,000	36,170,961	Africa
31	Botswana	38.2 per 1,000	2,359,609	Africa
32	Togo	35.9 per 1,000	8,095,498	Africa
33	Timor-Leste	35.9 per 1,000	1,391,221	Asia
34	Ethiopia	35.7 per 1,000	111,652,998	Africa
35	Comoros	35.7 per 1,000	919,901	Africa
36	Laos	35.2 per 1,000	7,647,000	Asia
37	Kenya	34.7 per 1,000	53,330,978	Africa
38	Yemen	34.7 per 1,000	32,684,503	Asia
39	Myanmar	34.1 per 1,000	51,316,756	Asia
40	Gambia	33.8 per 1,000	2,422,712	Africa
41	Dominica	33.1 per 1,000	67,408	Americas
42	Papua New Guinea	32.0 per 1,000	11,781,559	Oceania
43	Burundi	31.5 per 1,000	12,332,788	Africa
44	Turkmenistan	31.2 per 1,000	7,057,841	Asia
45	Mauritania	31.0 per 1,000	4,927,532	Africa
46	Zambia	30.9 per 1,000	19,693,423	Africa
47	Rwanda	30.5 per 1,000	14,104,969	Africa
48	Senegal	30.2 per 1,000	18,593,258	Africa
49	Tanzania	29.9 per 1,000	68,153,004	Africa
50	Malawi	29.4 per 1,000	20,734,262	Africa
51	Dominican Republic	28.4 per 1,000	10,771,504	Americas
52	Ghana	28.2 per 1,000	33,742,380	Africa
53	Uganda	27.6 per 1,000	45,905,417	Africa
54	Republic of the Congo	27.6 per 1,000	6,142,180	Africa
55	Gabon	26.5 per 1,000	2,469,296	Africa
56	Eritrea	25.5 per 1,000	3,607,000	Africa
57	India	24.5 per 1,000	1,417,492,000	Asia
58	Bangladesh	24.4 per 1,000	169,828,911	Asia
59	South Africa	24.4 per 1,000	63,100,945	Africa
60	Fiji	23.8 per 1,000	900,869	Oceania
61	Guyana	23.8 per 1,000	772,975	Americas
62	Marshall Islands	23.5 per 1,000	42,418	Oceania
63	Nepal	23.3 per 1,000	29,911,840	Asia
64	Tajikistan	22.9 per 1,000	10,499,000	Asia
65	Philippines	22.1 per 1,000	114,123,600	Asia
66	Venezuela	21.5 per 1,000	28,517,000	Americas
67	Iraq	20.8 per 1,000	46,118,793	Asia
68	Micronesia	20.8 per 1,000	105,564	Oceania
69	Cambodia	20.3 per 1,000	17,577,760	Asia
70	Bolivia	20.0 per 1,000	11,365,333	Americas
71	Algeria	19.7 per 1,000	47,400,000	Africa
72	Palau	19.1 per 1,000	16,733	Oceania
73	Syria	19.0 per 1,000	25,620,000	Asia
74	Bhutan	18.5 per 1,000	784,043	Asia
75	Jamaica	18.3 per 1,000	2,825,544	Americas
76	Guatemala	17.9 per 1,000	18,079,810	Americas
77	Trinidad and Tobago	17.2 per 1,000	1,367,764	Americas
78	Tuvalu	17.1 per 1,000	10,643	Oceania
79	Indonesia	17.0 per 1,000	284,438,782	Asia
80	Grenada	16.7 per 1,000	109,021	Americas
81	Solomon Islands	16.5 per 1,000	750,325	Oceania
82	Egypt	16.1 per 1,000	107,271,260	Africa
83	Lebanon	16.0 per 1,000	5,490,000	Asia
84	Libya	15.9 per 1,000	7,459,000	Africa
85	Morocco	15.5 per 1,000	36,828,330	Africa
86	Suriname	15.2 per 1,000	616,500	Americas
87	Paraguay	15.1 per 1,000	6,109,644	Americas
88	Kyrgyzstan	14.9 per 1,000	7,281,800	Asia
89	North Korea	14.5 per 1,000	25,950,000	Asia
90	Palestine	14.3 per 1,000	5,483,450	Asia
91	Saint Lucia	14.3 per 1,000	184,100	Americas
92	Saint Kitts and Nevis	14.3 per 1,000	51,320	Americas
93	Vanuatu	14.2 per 1,000	321,409	Oceania
94	Vietnam	14.0 per 1,000	101,343,800	Asia
95	Peru	13.5 per 1,000	34,350,244	Americas
96	Moldova	13.5 per 1,000	2,749,076	Europe
97	Mauritius	13.5 per 1,000	1,243,741	Africa
98	Azerbaijan	13.3 per 1,000	10,241,722	Asia
99	Honduras	13.3 per 1,000	9,892,632	Americas
100	Seychelles	13.1 per 1,000	122,729	Africa
101	Samoa	12.8 per 1,000	205,557	Oceania
102	Uzbekistan	12.7 per 1,000	37,859,698	Asia
103	Brazil	12.5 per 1,000	213,421,037	Americas
104	Jordan	12.2 per 1,000	11,734,000	Asia
105	British Virgin Islands	11.6 per 1,000	39,471	Americas
106	Mongolia	11.4 per 1,000	3,544,835	Asia
107	Bahamas	11.4 per 1,000	398,165	Americas
108	Ecuador	11.1 per 1,000	18,103,660	Americas
109	Cape Verde	11.0 per 1,000	491,233	Africa
110	Colombia	10.9 per 1,000	53,057,212	Americas
111	Mexico	10.8 per 1,000	130,575,786	Americas
112	Belize	10.8 per 1,000	417,634	Americas
113	Iran	10.7 per 1,000	85,961,000	Asia
114	Tunisia	10.6 per 1,000	11,972,169	Africa
115	Panama	10.6 per 1,000	4,064,780	Americas
116	Nicaragua	10.3 per 1,000	6,803,886	Americas
117	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	9.9 per 1,000	110,872	Americas
118	São Tomé and Príncipe	9.4 per 1,000	209,607	Africa
119	Barbados	9.3 per 1,000	267,800	Americas
120	El Salvador	9.2 per 1,000	6,029,976	Americas
121	Costa Rica	9.2 per 1,000	5,309,625	Americas
122	Turkey	9.1 per 1,000	85,664,944	Asia
123	Armenia	8.9 per 1,000	3,076,200	Asia
124	Oman	8.4 per 1,000	5,343,630	Asia
125	Albania	8.3 per 1,000	2,363,314	Europe
126	Kosovo	8.3 per 1,000	1,585,566	Europe
127	Nauru	8.3 per 1,000	11,680	Oceania
128	Argentina	8.2 per 1,000	46,735,004	Americas
129	Brunei	8.2 per 1,000	455,500	Asia
130	Thailand	8.0 per 1,000	65,859,640	Asia
131	Georgia	8.0 per 1,000	4,000,921	Asia
132	Tonga	8.0 per 1,000	100,179	Oceania
133	Ukraine	7.8 per 1,000	32,862,000	Europe
134	Kazakhstan	7.6 per 1,000	20,426,568	Asia
135	Kuwait	7.6 per 1,000	4,881,254	Asia
136	Antigua and Barbuda	7.3 per 1,000	103,603	Americas
137	Bahrain	7.2 per 1,000	1,594,654	Asia
138	Malaysia	6.8 per 1,000	34,231,700	Asia
139	Cuba	6.6 per 1,000	9,748,007	Americas
140	Chile	6.2 per 1,000	20,206,953	Americas
141	United States	5.5 per 1,000	340,110,988	Americas
142	Uruguay	5.5 per 1,000	3,499,451	Americas
143	Romania	5.4 per 1,000	19,036,031	Europe
144	Sri Lanka	5.3 per 1,000	21,763,170	Asia
145	Bosnia and Herzegovina	5.3 per 1,000	3,422,000	Europe
146	Slovakia	5.1 per 1,000	5,413,813	Europe
147	Bulgaria	5.0 per 1,000	6,437,360	Europe
148	Maldives	5.0 per 1,000	515,132	Asia
149	Saudi Arabia	4.9 per 1,000	35,300,280	Asia
150	Qatar	4.9 per 1,000	3,173,024	Asia
151	Malta	4.8 per 1,000	574,250	Europe
152	China	4.5 per 1,000	1,408,280,000	Asia
153	Serbia	4.5 per 1,000	6,567,783	Europe
154	Canada	4.4 per 1,000	41,651,653	Americas
155	United Kingdom	4.0 per 1,000	69,281,437	Europe
156	United Arab Emirates	4.0 per 1,000	11,294,243	Asia
157	New Zealand	4.0 per 1,000	5,324,700	Oceania
158	Turks and Caicos Islands	4.0 per 1,000	50,828	Americas
159	Croatia	3.9 per 1,000	3,866,233	Europe
160	Russia	3.7 per 1,000	146,028,325	Europe
161	Poland	3.7 per 1,000	37,392,000	Europe
162	Netherlands	3.5 per 1,000	18,100,436	Europe
163	Switzerland	3.5 per 1,000	9,082,848	Europe
164	France	3.4 per 1,000	66,351,959	Europe
165	Ireland	3.4 per 1,000	5,458,600	Europe
166	Greece	3.2 per 1,000	10,400,720	Europe
167	Hungary	3.2 per 1,000	9,539,502	Europe
168	Germany	3.1 per 1,000	83,491,249	Europe
169	Australia	3.1 per 1,000	27,536,874	Oceania
170	Belgium	3.0 per 1,000	11,825,551	Europe
171	Denmark	3.0 per 1,000	6,011,488	Europe
172	Cyprus	2.9 per 1,000	1,442,614	Europe
173	Lithuania	2.8 per 1,000	2,894,886	Europe
174	North Macedonia	2.8 per 1,000	1,822,612	Europe
175	Israel	2.7 per 1,000	10,134,800	Asia
176	Spain	2.6 per 1,000	49,315,949	Europe
177	Portugal	2.6 per 1,000	10,749,635	Europe
178	Austria	2.6 per 1,000	9,200,931	Europe
179	Latvia	2.5 per 1,000	1,829,000	Europe
180	Andorra	2.5 per 1,000	88,406	Europe
181	Italy	2.3 per 1,000	58,927,633	Europe
182	South Korea	2.3 per 1,000	51,159,889	Asia
183	Monaco	2.3 per 1,000	38,423	Europe
184	Czechia	2.1 per 1,000	10,882,341	Europe
185	Montenegro	2.1 per 1,000	623,327	Europe
186	Sweden	2.0 per 1,000	10,605,098	Europe
187	Luxembourg	2.0 per 1,000	681,973	Europe
188	Belarus	1.9 per 1,000	9,109,280	Europe
189	Norway	1.9 per 1,000	5,606,944	Europe
190	Iceland	1.9 per 1,000	391,810	Europe
191	Japan	1.8 per 1,000	123,210,000	Asia
192	Finland	1.8 per 1,000	5,650,325	Europe
193	Slovenia	1.8 per 1,000	2,130,638	Europe
194	Singapore	1.7 per 1,000	6,110,200	Asia
195	Estonia	1.6 per 1,000	1,369,995	Europe
196	San Marino	1.4 per 1,000	34,132	Europe