Infant Mortality
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ISRAEL RANKINGS
Infant Mortality
Deaths per 1,000 Births
Israel Iran Arab League member Arab League and Iran combined
Somalia 81.5
Comoros 53.9
Djibouti 44.3
Yemen 42.4
Sudan 39.7
Mauritania 29.9
Arab League and Iran, average 20.9
Algeria 18.6
Iraq 18.3
Morocco 17.8
Egypt 16.4
Syria 14.7
West Bank 14.2
Gaza Strip 14.2
Oman 13.6
Jordan 12.9
Saudi Arabia 11.4
Tunisia 10.6
Libya 10.4
Iran 9.7
Bahrain 9.6
Lebanon 7.3
Kuwait 7.0
Qatar 6.2
United Arab Emirates 4.9
Israel 2.6
Infant mortality rate, deaths per 1,000 live births, 2025 estimates. Israel in blue, Iran in brown. Lower is better.
Israel records about 2.6 infant deaths per 1,000 live births. That is the lowest in the group, and about 8 times lower than the 20.9 for the Arab League and Iran together.
Rates of this kind reflect prenatal care, hospitals and public health. They are among the most reliable measures of a country’s health system.
Source. CIA World Factbook, last edition before its retirement in February 2026, from the public factbook.json archive. Infant mortality rate, total. The combined bar is the population-weighted average of the 22 Arab League members, counting the West Bank and the Gaza Strip separately, and Iran.
Ranking 13
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