Mexico vs Peru: Number of child deaths per woman

Mexico
0.0257 under-five deaths per woman
in 2024
Peru
0.0283 under-five deaths per woman
in 2024
Mexico rank
109th
Peru rank
106th

Number of child deaths per woman over time

  • Mexico
  • Peru
00.511.52195119872024

How they compare

Peru currently reports 0.0283 under-five deaths per woman against 0.0257 under-five deaths per woman in Mexico, a difference of 0.0025 under-five deaths per woman.

That makes Peru's figure about 1.1 times Mexico's.

Across all 73 years both countries report, Peru has been ahead every year.

Mexico ranks 109th and Peru ranks 106th of 200 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Number of child deaths per woman
Unit
under-five deaths per woman
Source
Gapminder (2015); UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (2025) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
200 places, 16,060 data points, 1800–2024
Last refreshed

The fertility rate (average number of children per woman) multiplied by the under-five mortality rate (probability of dying before age five).