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Cameroon
Mortality rate, infant (per 1,000 live births)

Infant mortality rate is the number of infants dying before reaching one year of age, per 1,000 live births in a given year.

Global rank#26out of 196 countries
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Historical trend

17714310974.540.2196019922024Cameroon · 2024: 40.20Cameroon

Analytical takeaways

  • Cameroon records 40.20 for Mortality rate, infant (per 1,000 live births) in 2024, ranking #26 globally out of 196 countries.
  • Mortality rate, infant (per 1,000 live births) declined from 177.30 in 1960 to 40.20 in 2024, a decrease of 137.10.
  • The country sits in the top quartile of the global distribution for this metric, making the page useful for leader-oriented high-intent searches.

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