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Maldives — Infant mortality
Infant Mortality Rate for Maldives, 1962–2024.
Latest value · 2024
4.7
Infant Mortality Rate · per 1,000 live births · -98.0% since 1962
Infant mortality for Maldives was 4.7 in 2024, according to the latest World Bank data. The series covers 63 years, from 1962 to 2024. The highest recorded value was 240.0 in 1962. Across that span the compound annual growth rate works out to -6.15% per year.
Maldives ranks 151 of 196 economies on this measure (1 = highest), putting it in the top 77%. The median for South Asia is 22.2, so Maldives sits below it. It peaked in 1962 and has fallen 98% since. Over the last decade (2014–2024) the figure moved down 48%.
Key figures
Latest (2024)
4.7
First (1962)
240.0
Change
-98.0%
Highest
240.0
in 1962
Lowest
4.7
in 2024
Average
83.5
Annual growth (CAGR)
-6.15%
Years of data
63
Recent years
| Year | per 1,000 live births |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 4.7 |
| 2023 | 5 |
| 2022 | 5.3 |
| 2021 | 5.6 |
| 2020 | 6 |
| 2019 | 6.4 |
| 2018 | 6.9 |
| 2017 | 7.4 |
| 2016 | 8 |
| 2015 | 8.5 |
| 2014 | 9.1 |
| 2013 | 9.8 |
Reading this correctly. Number of infants dying before reaching one year of age, per 1,000 live births in a given year. Figures are in per 1,000 live births. Comparing this series with a different measure of the same concept (for example a nominal figure against a purchasing-power-parity figure) will give misleading results.
Related data
Source. World Bank Open Data, indicator
SP.DYN.IMRT.IN — Infant Mortality Rate. Data licensed under CC BY 4.0. Values are reproduced as published; this page computes the summary statistics (change, CAGR, extremes) from the underlying annual series. View the original dataset on data.worldbank.org.