Infant mortality rate in Nigeria 2023, by gender
maternal mortality rates are high. In 2017, Nigeria recorded 917 deaths of mothers per 100,000 live births.
As of 2023, the mortality rate of infants aged under one-year-old in Nigeria was measured at 55.17. This means that there were about 55 deaths of children under the age of one year per 1,000 live births. Child mortality rates in Africa are very high. Among the countries with the highest infant mortality rate in the world, almost all of them are African countries. Similarly,