EU regions (NUTS 2) by infant mortality rate

Mayotte had the highest infant mortality rate of 240 regions in 2022, at 10.1 per 1,000 live births. Åland had the lowest, at 0 per 1,000 live births. The median was 3.1 per 1,000 live births and the figure for the European Union (27) was 3.3 per 1,000 live births. Source: Eurostat, European Commission.

Highest10.1Mayotte

Lowest0Åland

Median3.1240 regions

European Union (27)3.3History

Top 40 regions, 2022

per 1,000 live births. Source: Eurostat, Infant mortality rates by NUTS 2 region (demo_r_minfind). Retrieved 2026-10-12.

Full ranking

Rank	Regions	2022 per 1,000 live births	Change on 2021
1	Mayotte	10.1	+1.3
2	Guyane	9.8	+1.8
3	Východné Slovensko	9.7	+1.6
4	Martinique	9.2	+0.1
5	Yugoiztochen	8.2	-1.4
6	Anatoliki Makedonia, Thraki	7.5	+0.4
7	Severozapaden	7.3	+0.2
8	La Réunion	7	+0.6
9	Sud-Est	6.5	+0.3
10	Valle d’Aosta/Vallée d’Aoste	6.4	+6.4
11	Nord-Vest	6.3	+0.5
12	Centru	6.2	0
13	Nord-Est	6	+0.3
13	Severen tsentralen	6	-0.4
15	Vest	5.9	+1.2
16	Sud-Vest Oltenia	5.8	-0.3
17	Melilla	5.6	+1.3
17	Sud-Muntenia	5.6	+0.7
19	Malta	5.3	+1.4
20	Bremen	5.1	+2.5
20	Lorraine	5.1	+1.4
22	Észak-Magyarország	5	+0.3
22	Jadranska Hrvatska	5	+0.8
22	Kujawsko-pomorskie	5	-0.6
25	Guadeloupe	4.9	-4.8
25	Ionia Nisia	4.9	-0.1
25	Yuzhen tsentralen	4.9	-0.2
28	Śląskie	4.8	+0.4
29	Panonska Hrvatska	4.7	+0.8
30	Pomorskie	4.6	+0.5
30	Warmińsko-mazurskie	4.6	-0.2
32	Alsace	4.4	+0.6
32	Groningen	4.4	+2.3
32	Peloponnisos	4.4	+0.2
32	Voreio Aigaio	4.4	+3.2
32	Zachodniopomorskie	4.4	+0.7
37	Centre - Val de Loire	4.3	+0.9
37	Dél-Dunántúl	4.3	+1.4
37	Észak-Alföld	4.3	-0.2
37	Ile-de-France	4.3	+0.2
37	Lubelskie	4.3	-0.3
37	Münster	4.3	+0.2
37	Prov. Hainaut	4.3	+0.5
44	Haute-Normandie	4.2	+0.9
44	Limousin	4.2	-0.3
44	Oberfranken	4.2	+0.7
44	Severoiztochen	4.2	-1.6
44	Sjælland	4.2	+0.7
49	La Rioja	4.1	-0.9
49	Picardie	4.1	+0.5
51	Auvergne	4	-0.5
51	Dél-Alföld	4	+0.8
51	Łódzkie	4	+0.4
51	Sterea Elláda	4	+1.3
55	Dolnośląskie	3.9	-0.6
55	Franche-Comté	3.9	+0.4
55	Podkarpackie	3.9	-0.2
55	Podlaskie	3.9	-0.8
59	Basse-Normandie	3.8	+0.8
59	Severozápad	3.8	+0.7
59	Sjeverna Hrvatska	3.8	-0.8
59	Thüringen	3.8	+0.7
59	Trier	3.8	+1
64	Alentejo	3.7	+2.3
64	Aquitaine	3.7	+0.9
64	Bourgogne	3.7	+1.1
64	Brandenburg	3.7	+0.7
64	Hannover	3.7	+1.2
64	Lüneburg	3.7	-0.4
64	Świętokrzyskie	3.7	+1.1
71	Gießen	3.6	0
71	Kassel	3.6	+1.2
71	Kentriki Makedonia	3.6	-0.1
71	Midtjylland	3.6	+0.9
71	Southern	3.6	-0.1
76	Champagne-Ardenne	3.5	-0.2
76	Drenthe	3.5	+0.1
76	Gelderland	3.5	-0.2
76	Koblenz	3.5	+0.5
76	Lubuskie	3.5	+0.3
76	Luxembourg	3.5	+0.4
76	Wielkopolskie	3.5	-0.3
83	Friesland (NL)	3.4	+0.7
83	Limburg (NL)	3.4	+0.2
83	Oeste e Vale do Tejo	3.4	+0.3
83	Pest	3.4	+1.5
83	Poitou-Charentes	3.4	-0.1
83	Prov. Antwerpen	3.4	+0.3
83	Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur	3.4	+0.3
83	Rheinhessen-Pfalz	3.4	+0.4
83	Sachsen-Anhalt	3.4	0
83	Stredné Slovensko	3.4	-0.6
83	Vidurio ir vakarų Lietuvos regionas	3.4	+0.3
83	Weser-Ems	3.4	+0.7
95	Burgenland	3.3	+0.6
95	Calabria	3.3	-0.6
95	Darmstadt	3.3	+0.5
95	Düsseldorf	3.3	+0.1
95	Hamburg	3.3	+0.1
95	Közép-Dunántúl	3.3	-0.9
95	Languedoc-Roussillon	3.3	+0.5
95	Mazowiecki regionalny	3.3	-0.3
95	Region of Murcia	3.3	+0.5
95	Wien	3.3	-0.3
105	Arnsberg	3.2	-0.7
105	Braunschweig	3.2	-1.1
105	Detmold	3.2	+0.6
105	Mecklenburg-Vorpommern	3.2	+1.2
105	Östra Mellansverige	3.2	+1
105	Prov. Luxembourg (BE)	3.2	+1.3
105	Rhône-Alpes	3.2	0
105	Západné Slovensko	3.2	-0.2
113	Abruzzo	3.1	+0.8
113	Bretagne	3.1	0
113	Canary Islands	3.1	+0.3
113	Eastern and Midland	3.1	+0.5
113	Extremadura	3.1	+1.6
113	Flevoland	3.1	-1.5
113	Hovedstaden	3.1	+0.2
113	Köln	3.1	+0.2
113	Kýpros	3.1	+0.4
113	Noord-Brabant	3.1	+0.2
113	Península de Setúbal	3.1	+0.4
113	Stuttgart	3.1	+0.1
125	Asturias	3	+0.7
125	Basque Country	3	+0.5
125	Castile and León	3	+0.7
125	Freiburg	3	-0.5
125	Mittelfranken	3	-0.1
125	Niederbayern	3	-0.1
125	Noord-Holland	3	-0.4
125	Syddanmark	3	-0.3
133	Campania	2.9	+0.3
133	Northern and Western	2.9	-1
133	Overijssel	2.9	-0.9
133	Pays de la Loire	2.9	-0.1
133	Prov. Oost-Vlaanderen	2.9	-0.5
133	Região Autónoma dos Açores	2.9	+0.5
133	Schwaben	2.9	+1
133	Tübingen	2.9	+0.8
133	Warszawski stołeczny	2.9	-0.4
142	Basilicata	2.8	+0.7
142	Berlin	2.8	-0.1
142	Małopolskie	2.8	-0.2
142	Midi-Pyrénées	2.8	-0.3
142	Nord-Pas de Calais	2.8	0
142	Pohjois- ja Itä-Suomi	2.8	+1.4
142	Prov. Limburg (BE)	2.8	+0.3
142	Schleswig-Holstein	2.8	-0.2
142	Unterfranken	2.8	-0.5
151	Dresden	2.7	+0.5
151	Karlsruhe	2.7	-0.4
151	Kärnten	2.7	+1.6
151	Nordjylland	2.7	-1.5
151	Prov. Liège	2.7	+0.3
151	Prov. Namur	2.7	-0.1
151	Puglia	2.7	+0.2
151	Région de Bruxelles-Capitale/ Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest	2.7	0
159	Andalusia	2.6	-0.4
159	Bucureşti-Ilfov	2.6	+0.1
159	Centro (PT)	2.6	+0.7
159	Moravskoslezsko	2.6	+0.3
159	Sardegna	2.6	+0.5
159	Sicilia	2.6	-0.8
159	Tirol	2.6	+0.2
159	Zahodna Slovenija	2.6	+1
167	Attiki	2.5	-0.9
167	Bratislavský kraj	2.5	+0.5
167	Cantabria	2.5	-2.4
167	Catalonia	2.5	+0.4
167	Chemnitz	2.5	+0.2
167	Community of Madrid	2.5	0
167	Corse	2.5	-0.1
167	Grande Lisboa	2.5	-0.6
167	Jihozápad	2.5	+0.7
167	Navarre	2.5	-0.4
167	Niederösterreich	2.5	-0.9
167	Norra Mellansverige	2.5	+0.5
167	Oberpfalz	2.5	+0.3
167	Vorarlberg	2.5	+0.9
181	Latvija	2.4	-0.3
181	Liguria	2.4	-0.4
181	Norte	2.4	+0.3
181	Opolskie	2.4	-1.6
181	Prov. West-Vlaanderen	2.4	-0.4
181	Severovýchod	2.4	+0.3
181	Střední Morava	2.4	-0.6
181	Valencian Community	2.4	+0.1
181	Vzhodna Slovenija	2.4	+0.4
181	Yugozapaden	2.4	-0.7
191	Castilla-La Mancha	2.3	-0.7
191	Friuli-Venezia Giulia	2.3	+0.1
191	Grad Zagreb	2.3	+0.1
191	Lombardia	2.3	+0.1
191	Nyugat-Dunántúl	2.3	-1
191	Oberbayern	2.3	0
191	Sostinės regionas	2.3	-0.8
191	Sydsverige	2.3	+0.4
199	Aragon	2.2	+0.3
199	Eesti	2.2	0
199	Etelä-Suomi	2.2	-0.7
199	Notio Aigaio	2.2	-0.4
199	Piemonte	2.2	+0.4
199	Prov. Vlaams-Brabant	2.2	-0.3
199	Provincia Autonoma di Trento	2.2	+0.3
199	Stockholm	2.2	+0.7
207	Dytiki Elláda	2.1	-1.3
207	Dytiki Makedonia	2.1	-0.3
207	Emilia-Romagna	2.1	-0.2
207	Kriti	2.1	0
207	Oberösterreich	2.1	-0.4
207	Övre Norrland	2.1	0
207	Thessalia	2.1	-0.8
214	Algarve	2	+0.3
214	Ipeiros	2	-2
214	Veneto	2	0
214	Zeeland	2	-0.8
218	Balearic Islands	1.9	-0.4
218	Budapest	1.9	+0.2
218	Galicia	1.9	-0.4
218	Jihovýchod	1.9	-0.4
218	Länsi-Suomi	1.9	+0.1
223	Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano/Bozen	1.8	-0.1
223	Střední Čechy	1.8	+0.3
223	Umbria	1.8	+0.5
226	Marche	1.7	+0.2
226	Prov. Brabant wallon	1.7	-0.4
226	Região Autónoma da Madeira	1.7	-1.7
226	Salzburg	1.7	-1.1
226	Småland med öarna	1.7	-0.8
231	Helsinki-Uusimaa	1.6	+0.2
231	Mellersta Norrland	1.6	+0.5
233	Lazio	1.5	-0.2
234	Ceuta	1.4	-2.8
234	Praha	1.4	-0.4
234	Steiermark	1.4	-0.6
234	Toscana	1.4	0
234	Västsverige	1.4	-0.3
239	Molise	0.6	-1.8
240	Åland	0	0

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Deaths of infants before their first birthday per 1,000 live births in the year.

Every value in the ranking comes from the same publisher and the same period, so the regions are compared on one definition. 4 regions with data in other periods have no value for 2022 and are left out rather than filled from another source. Equal values share a rank.

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Eurostat. Infant mortality rates by NUTS 2 region (demo_r_minfind). https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/demo_r_minfind/default/table. Retrieved 2026-10-12.

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@misc{eurostat_eu_regions_nuts_2_2022,
  author = {{Eurostat, European Commission}},
  title = {{Infant mortality rates by NUTS 2 region (demo\_r\_minfind): EU regions (NUTS 2) by infant mortality rate, 2022}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {Data set},
  url = {https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/demo_r_minfind/default/table},
  urldate = {2026-10-12},
  note = {Accessed via Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/infant-mortality-rate/eu-regions?period=2022. Publisher attribution: Eurostat. Infant mortality rates by NUTS 2 region (demo\_r\_minfind). https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/demo\_r\_minfind/default/table. Retrieved 2026-10-12.},
}

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Which region has the highest infant mortality rate?

Mayotte, with 10.1 per 1,000 live births in 2022, according to Eurostat, European Commission.

Which region has the lowest infant mortality rate?

Åland, with 0 per 1,000 live births in 2022.

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Every value comes from one source and one period, so the places are comparable: Eurostat, European Commission, Infant mortality rates by NUTS 2 region (demo_r_minfind). Retrieved 2026-10-12. 4 regions have no value for 2022 and are not ranked.