World Bank Open Data · CC BY 4.0 Some World Bank indicators are published with a lag. The site always shows the latest actually available year for each country and indicator.
RU EN

New Zealand
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#159out of 196 countries
Go to rankingOpenglobal ranking and map

Historical trend

22.517.913.38.64.0196019922024New Zealand · 2024: 4.00New Zealand

Analytical takeaways

  • New Zealand records 4.00 for Mortality rate, infant (per 1,000 live births) in 2024, ranking #159 globally out of 196 countries.
  • Mortality rate, infant (per 1,000 live births) declined from 22.50 in 1960 to 4.00 in 2024, a decrease of 18.50.
  • The country sits in the bottom quartile of the global distribution for this metric, which also makes the page relevant for low-value and lagging-performance searches.

Comparison

Use the comparison tool or canonical pair-vs-pair pages to compare this country on the same indicator.