Society · Under-five mortality · Comoros
Comoros’ under-five mortality fell to 39 per 1,000 live births in 2024.
39 per 1,000 live births
2024
Down 1.2 per 1,000 live births from 2023.
Updated 18 Oct 2026
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39 per 1,000 live births
What it is. Under-five mortality is the probability that a child born alive dies before their fifth birthday, expressed per 1,000 live births. It folds newborn deaths, infections, malnutrition and accidents into one national figure, so a single number covers the whole span from birth to age five. Cause of death, island, household income and the child's sex all sit outside it.
Lower is better. Every death counted here is a child lost before school age, so a lower figure means more children survive their early years. The latest figure for Comoros is 39 per 1,000 live births in 2024, down from 40.2 per 1,000 live births a year earlier, a fall of 3%. Since 2015 the figure has ranged from a high of 48.9 per 1,000 live births in 2015 down to 39 per 1,000 live births in 2024, so the current reading is the lowest in that span.
Why it matters. At 39 per 1,000 live births, about 39 of every 1,000 children born alive in Comoros die before turning five. For households, that risk shapes decisions about where to give birth and when to seek care for fever, diarrhoea or malnutrition. For the state, keeping the figure falling depends on vaccination, maternal care and clean water reaching every island.
| Period | Under-five mortality · Comoros |
|---|---|
| 2015 | 48.9 per 1,000 live births |
| 2016 | 47.9 per 1,000 live births |
| 2017 | 46.9 per 1,000 live births |
| 2018 | 45.8 per 1,000 live births |
| 2019 | 44.8 per 1,000 live births |
| 2020 | 43.7 per 1,000 live births |
| 2021 | 42.6 per 1,000 live births |
| 2022 | 41.4 per 1,000 live births |
| 2023 | 40.2 per 1,000 live births |
| 2024 | 39 per 1,000 live births |
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators (CC BY 4.0) · Licence: CC BY 4.0
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Strata-AF™ Data, Under-five mortality, Comoros, 2024; source World Bank, World Development Indicators (CC BY 4.0), retrieved 18 Oct 2026; https://data.strata-af.com/society/under-five-mortality/comoros
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Probability of dying before the age of five, per 1,000 live births. Unit: per 1,000 live births.
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators (series SH.DYN.MORT), retrieved through the World Bank API and published under CC BY 4.0. Updated annually; the World Bank's own source notes apply.