# Child mortality rate: Cameroon

6.48% in 2024, the latest year published. Figures for 72 years from 1953 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 | 6.48 |
| 2023 | 6.7 |
| 2022 | 6.94 |
| 2021 | 7.19 |
| 2020 | 7.44 |
| 2019 | 7.66 |
| 2018 | 7.89 |
| 2017 | 8.19 |
| 2016 | 8.51 |
| 2015 | 8.85 |
| 2014 | 9.24 |
| 2013 | 9.65 |
| 2012 | 10.08 |
| 2011 | 10.52 |
| 2010 | 10.95 |
| 2009 | 11.37 |
| 2008 | 11.72 |
| 2007 | 12.08 |
| 2006 | 12.42 |
| 2005 | 12.76 |
| 2004 | 13.09 |
| 2003 | 13.43 |
| 2002 | 13.76 |
| 2001 | 14.1 |
| 2000 | 14.39 |
| 1999 | 14.64 |
| 1998 | 14.78 |
| 1997 | 14.84 |
| 1996 | 14.82 |
| 1995 | 14.71 |
| 1994 | 14.54 |
| 1993 | 14.31 |
| 1992 | 14.09 |
| 1991 | 13.88 |
| 1990 | 13.74 |
| 1989 | 13.72 |
| 1988 | 13.84 |
| 1987 | 14.1 |
| 1986 | 14.51 |
| 1985 | 15.03 |
| 1984 | 15.62 |
| 1983 | 16.26 |
| 1982 | 16.9 |
| 1981 | 17.49 |
| 1980 | 18 |
| 1979 | 18.43 |
| 1978 | 18.75 |
| 1977 | 18.96 |
| 1976 | 19.09 |
| 1975 | 19.22 |
| 1974 | 19.4 |
| 1973 | 19.67 |
| 1972 | 20.1 |
| 1971 | 20.68 |
| 1970 | 21.42 |
| 1969 | 22.28 |
| 1968 | 23.18 |
| 1967 | 24.05 |
| 1966 | 24.85 |
| 1965 | 25.54 |
| 1964 | 26.14 |
| 1963 | 26.64 |
| 1962 | 27.13 |
| 1961 | 27.69 |
| 1960 | 28.34 |
| 1959 | 29.13 |
| 1958 | 30.04 |
| 1957 | 31.07 |
| 1956 | 32.16 |
| 1955 | 33.35 |
| 1954 | 34.58 |
| 1953 | 35.87 |

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