Lesotho vs Nigeria: Stillbirth rate

Lesotho

2.27 deaths per 100 births

in 2023

Nigeria

2.39 deaths per 100 births

in 2023

Lesotho rank

15th

Nigeria rank

12th

Stillbirth rate over time

Nigeria currently reports 2.39 deaths per 100 births against 2.27 deaths per 100 births in Lesotho, a difference of 0.1217 deaths per 100 births.

That makes Nigeria's figure about 1.1 times Lesotho's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 24 shared years of data; in 2000 it was Lesotho ahead.

Lesotho ranks 15th and Nigeria ranks 12th of 196 countries.

Indicator: Stillbirth rate
Unit: deaths per 100 births
Source: United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (2025) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 199 places, 4,776 data points, 2000–2023
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

The estimated number of stillbirths, per 100 total births.