Infant mortality

deaths under age 1 per 1,000 live births

stagnant recent trend, computed over 2017–2024

: rank 27 of 27 in the EU (2024) — last place in the EU

One of modern Romania's greatest advances: from over twenty-five per thousand in 1990, the rate has fallen steadily, decade after decade. Two problems remain: it is still the highest in the EU, and in the most recent years the decline has stopped; the figure has even ticked up.

Source: World Bank · Dataset: SP.DYN.IMRT.IN · Open source

Where Romania stands in the EU (2024)

The progress since the 1990s is enormous, but the ranking remains unforgiving: Romania still sits in the Union's last places for newborn survival.

Compared with Poland, Hungary and Bulgaria

All four countries started high; Romania had the most ground to make up and has still not closed the gap to its neighbours, though its curve has been falling almost without interruption for three decades.

The gaps between Romania's regions (2024)

Administrative boundaries: © EuroGeographics.

The shaded band spans, year by year, the distance between the highest-value region and the lowest.

The risk of death in the first year of life differs widely from region to region: access to doctors, the distance to a maternity ward and poverty show up directly in this figure.

Source: Eurostat · Dataset: demo_r_minfind · Open source

Source and method

Across the period shown: from 24.2 per 1,000 in 1990 to 6.0 per 1,000 in 2024.

Source: World Bank
Dataset: SP.DYN.IMRT.IN
API address: https://api.worldbank.org/v2/country/ROU/indicator/SP.DYN.IMRT.IN?format=json&per_page=20000
Retrieved on: 2026-07-08

Download the data: mortalitate-infantila.json · detail/mortalitate-infantila.json