Countries in Asia by infant mortality

Countries in Asia by infant mortality, World Bank, 2024

#	Country	Per 1,000 births	Region
1	Afghanistan	48.3	Southern Asia
2	Pakistan	48.2	Southern Asia
3	Timor-Leste	34.6	South-Eastern Asia
4	Yemen	33.8	Western Asia
5	Myanmar	32.8	South-Eastern Asia
6	Turkmenistan	30.4	Central Asia
7	Laos	27.2	South-Eastern Asia
8	Bangladesh	24.4	Southern Asia
9	Tajikistan	23.5	Central Asia
10	India	23.3	Southern Asia
11	Nepal	22.2	Southern Asia
12	Philippines	21.7	South-Eastern Asia
13	Iraq	20.1	Western Asia
14	Syria	17.7	Western Asia
15	Cambodia	16.4	South-Eastern Asia
16	Lebanon	15.3	Western Asia
17	Indonesia	15.2	South-Eastern Asia
18	Kyrgyzstan	14.8	Central Asia
19	Bhutan	13.7	Southern Asia
20	North Korea	13.3	Eastern Asia
21	Uzbekistan	12.8	Central Asia
22	Azerbaijan	12.5	Western Asia
=23	Jordan	12.0	Western Asia
=23	Vietnam	12.0	South-Eastern Asia
25	Mongolia	11.2	Eastern Asia
26	Iran	10.3	Southern Asia
27	Brunei	8.6	South-Eastern Asia
28	Armenia	8.5	Western Asia
29	Oman	8.3	Western Asia
30	Turkey	8.0	Western Asia
31	Thailand	7.7	South-Eastern Asia
32	Georgia	7.5	Western Asia
33	Kazakhstan	7.4	Central Asia
34	Bahrain	7.3	Western Asia
=35	Kuwait	7.0	Western Asia
=35	Malaysia	7.0	South-Eastern Asia
37	Sri Lanka	5.2	Southern Asia
38	Qatar	4.8	Western Asia
=39	Maldives	4.7	Southern Asia
=39	Saudi Arabia	4.7	Western Asia
=41	China	4.1	Eastern Asia
=41	Cyprus	4.1	Western Asia
43	United Arab Emirates	3.8	Western Asia
44	Israel	2.7	Western Asia
45	South Korea	2.3	Eastern Asia
46	Singapore	2.2	South-Eastern Asia
47	Japan	1.8	Eastern Asia

No World Bank figure for Taiwan.

Territories and other places

Not ranked: dependencies of the states above, places whose status is disputed. Highest first.

Place	Per 1,000 births	Status
Palestine	17.0	Status disputed

Questions

Which country in Asia has the highest infant mortality?

Afghanistan has the highest infant mortality in Asia: 48.3 infant deaths per 1,000 live births (2024). Next come Pakistan (48.2 infant deaths per 1,000 live births) and Timor-Leste (34.6 infant deaths per 1,000 live births).

Which country in Asia has the lowest infant mortality?

Japan, with 1.8 infant deaths per 1,000 live births (2024).

What is the typical infant mortality of a country in Asia?

The median of the 47 countries in Asia is 12.0 infant deaths per 1,000 live births: half are above it, half below. The median, not the average, because a few countries at the top would drag an average far above almost everyone.

Where do the figures come from?

Babies who die before their first birthday, for every 1,000 born alive. Source: World Bank, 2024. Only independent states are ranked; territories are listed separately. A country’s continent follows Natural Earth; the handful of island states it files under the open ocean are placed by their UN subregion.

Source: World Bank (CC BY 4.0). Figures more than 5 years older than the newest are left out rather than shown beside current ones. Countries sharing a value share a rank. All sources.