# Child mortality rate: Lesotho

6% in 2024, the latest year published. Figures for 75 years from 1950 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 |
| 2023 | 6.13 |
| 2022 | 6.2 |
| 2021 | 6.4 |
| 2020 | 6.63 |
| 2019 | 6.81 |
| 2018 | 6.88 |
| 2017 | 7.01 |
| 2016 | 7.14 |
| 2015 | 7.51 |
| 2014 | 7.76 |
| 2013 | 7.93 |
| 2012 | 8.14 |
| 2011 | 8.52 |
| 2010 | 9.09 |
| 2009 | 9.91 |
| 2008 | 11.16 |
| 2007 | 11.19 |
| 2006 | 11.47 |
| 2005 | 11.46 |
| 2004 | 11.39 |
| 2003 | 11.32 |
| 2002 | 11.21 |
| 2001 | 11.03 |
| 2000 | 10.83 |
| 1999 | 10.63 |
| 1998 | 10.42 |
| 1997 | 10.21 |
| 1996 | 9.89 |
| 1995 | 9.51 |
| 1994 | 9.11 |
| 1993 | 8.76 |
| 1992 | 8.54 |
| 1991 | 8.44 |
| 1990 | 8.45 |
| 1989 | 8.57 |
| 1988 | 8.77 |
| 1987 | 9.02 |
| 1986 | 9.33 |
| 1985 | 9.69 |
| 1984 | 10.11 |
| 1983 | 10.57 |
| 1982 | 11.07 |
| 1981 | 11.64 |
| 1980 | 12.24 |
| 1979 | 12.86 |
| 1978 | 13.48 |
| 1977 | 14.11 |
| 1976 | 14.74 |
| 1975 | 15.33 |
| 1974 | 15.87 |
| 1973 | 16.33 |
| 1972 | 16.76 |
| 1971 | 17.16 |
| 1970 | 17.55 |
| 1969 | 17.92 |
| 1968 | 18.22 |
| 1967 | 18.45 |
| 1966 | 18.58 |
| 1965 | 18.62 |
| 1964 | 18.59 |
| 1963 | 18.51 |
| 1962 | 18.44 |
| 1961 | 18.43 |
| 1960 | 18.53 |
| 1959 | 18.75 |
| 1958 | 19.08 |
| 1957 | 19.55 |
| 1956 | 20.13 |
| 1955 | 20.86 |
| 1954 | 21.62 |
| 1953 | 22.42 |
| 1952 | 23.26 |
| 1951 | 25.74 |
| 1950 | 26.92 |

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