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Nigeria
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#2out of 196 countries
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Historical trend

21818014310568.0196419942024Nigeria · 2024: 69.80Nigeria

Analytical takeaways

  • Nigeria records 69.80 for Mortality rate, infant (per 1,000 live births) in 2024, ranking #2 globally out of 196 countries.
  • Mortality rate, infant (per 1,000 live births) declined from 171.70 in 1964 to 69.80 in 2024, a decrease of 101.90.
  • 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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