# Child mortality rate: Botswana

3.33% in 2024, the latest year published. Figures for 71 years from 1954 to 2024 are below.

Long-run estimated share of newborns who die before reaching the age of five.

Source: Gapminder (2015); UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (2025) – processed by Our World in Data. [Source and method](/sources/child-mortality) · [All countries and regions](/child-mortality).

## Every year

| Year | Value (deaths per 100 live births) |
| ---: | ---: |
| 2024 | 3.33 |
| 2023 | 3.46 |
| 2022 | 3.57 |
| 2021 | 3.71 |
| 2020 | 3.89 |
| 2019 | 4 |
| 2018 | 4.12 |
| 2017 | 4.21 |
| 2016 | 4.51 |
| 2015 | 4.67 |
| 2014 | 4.9 |
| 2013 | 5.03 |
| 2012 | 5.39 |
| 2011 | 5.88 |
| 2010 | 5.84 |
| 2009 | 6.06 |
| 2008 | 6.37 |
| 2007 | 6.43 |
| 2006 | 6.6 |
| 2005 | 7.08 |
| 2004 | 7.57 |
| 2003 | 7.67 |
| 2002 | 7.79 |
| 2001 | 7.93 |
| 2000 | 7.98 |
| 1999 | 7.85 |
| 1998 | 7.54 |
| 1997 | 7.34 |
| 1996 | 7.04 |
| 1995 | 6.64 |
| 1994 | 6.62 |
| 1993 | 6.15 |
| 1992 | 5.71 |
| 1991 | 5.36 |
| 1990 | 5.15 |
| 1989 | 5.05 |
| 1988 | 5.07 |
| 1987 | 5.21 |
| 1986 | 5.42 |
| 1985 | 5.66 |
| 1984 | 5.91 |
| 1983 | 6.19 |
| 1982 | 6.52 |
| 1981 | 6.9 |
| 1980 | 7.33 |
| 1979 | 7.81 |
| 1978 | 8.33 |
| 1977 | 8.89 |
| 1976 | 9.48 |
| 1975 | 10.04 |
| 1974 | 10.58 |
| 1973 | 11.11 |
| 1972 | 11.59 |
| 1971 | 12.07 |
| 1970 | 12.53 |
| 1969 | 12.97 |
| 1968 | 13.39 |
| 1967 | 13.81 |
| 1966 | 14.19 |
| 1965 | 14.55 |
| 1964 | 14.95 |
| 1963 | 15.39 |
| 1962 | 15.82 |
| 1961 | 16.27 |
| 1960 | 16.78 |
| 1959 | 17.28 |
| 1958 | 17.83 |
| 1957 | 18.34 |
| 1956 | 18.89 |
| 1955 | 19.52 |
| 1954 | 20.14 |

[This page in HTML](/child-mortality/botswana) · [Home](/) · [Method](/method) · [Sources](/sources) · [Terms](/terms)

Requests to this site are logged for research and reported only in aggregate; see the terms.