Infant mortality

A map with the infant mortality rates; lower rates are shades of blue; average rates shades of green and higher rates shades of red

Infant mortality is a measure of how many babies die during the first 12 months after birth. It is usually measured as being a number of deaths for every thousand births. The rate of infant mortality in a given place is the total number of babies dying under one year of age divided by the total number of live births during the year, then all multiplied by 1,000. For example, in 2009 the infant mortality rate in the USA was 6.8. That means for every 1000 births, 6.8 babies will die before the age of one.

Infant Mortality Media

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  World map of infant mortality rates in 2017

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  Percentage of population suffering from hunger, World Food Programme, 2020*     < 2,5%*     2,5–5,0%*     5,0–14,9%*     15,0–24,9%*     25,0–34,9%*     > 35,0%*     No data

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  Infant mortality rates are higher in countries with higher economic inequality.

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  Countries by 2019 GDP (nominal) per capita

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  Map of countries by fertility rate, according to the Population Reference Bureau

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  Infant mortality rate by region

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  Life expectancy at birth by region

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  1906 headline imploring parents to attend to the cleanliness of their infants, and to expose them to the "clean air" outdoors

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  Data indicating the IMR disparity between infants non-Hispanic black postpartum parent's and infants of white or Hispanic postpartum parents in the United States from 2000 to 2010