Countries with Lowest Infant Mortality (2026)

San Marino has one of the lowest infant mortality rates at just 1.4 deaths per 1,000 live births. These countries typically have universal healthcare, excellent prenatal care, and high standards of living.

#1

San Marino

1.4 per 1,000

#2

Estonia

1.6 per 1,000

#3

Singapore

1.7 per 1,000

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

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