Infant Mortality Rate Of African Countries 2018
Updated on December 15, 2019.
Infant mortality rate is defined as the number of infants dying before reaching one year of age, per 1,000 live births in a given year.
In 2018, Central African Republic had the highest infant mortality rate (84.5). The following countries also had very high infant mortality rates: Sierra Leone (78.5), Somalia (76.6), Nigeria (75.7), Chad (71.4), Democratic Republic of the Congo (68.2) .
On the other hand, Libya had the lowest infant mortality rate (10.2), followed by Tunisia (14.6), Cape Verde (16.7), and Egypt (18.1).
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Data Source: World Bank.
Infant Mortality Rate Of African Countries 2018