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The infant mortality rate is the number of deaths of infants under one year old per 1,000 live births. This rate is often used as an indicator of the level of health in a country. The infant mortality rate of the world in 2019 was 28 according to the United Nations [4] and the projected estimate for 2020 was 30.8 according to the CIA World ...
World map of infant mortality rates in 2017. Infant mortality is the death of an infant before the infant's first birthday. [1] The occurrence of infant mortality in a population can be described by the infant mortality rate (IMR), which is the number of deaths of infants under one year of age per 1,000 live births. [1]
The list is based on CIA World Factbook 2023 estimates, unless indicated otherwise. Many developing countries have far higher proportions of young people, and lower proportions of older people, than some developed countries, and thus may have much higher age-specific mortality rates while having lower crude mortality rates.
There is variation of child mortality around the world. Countries that are in the second or third stage of the Demographic Transition Mode have higher rates of child mortality than countries in the fourth or fifth stage. Chad infant mortality is about 96 per 1,000 live births compared to only 2.2 per 1,000 live births in Japan. [9]
English: Mortality (death) rates of sovereign states plus Greenland, French Guiana, New Caledonia, and Puerto Rico. Data from Population Reference Bureau's 2022 World Population Data Sheet. Greenland data from CIA Factbook. Derived from BlankMap-World-Sovereign_Nations by RedGolpe.
English: The map shows the comparative distribution by country of infant mortality rates per 1,000 live birth, under age 5. Data source: Mortality rates table, UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UNICEF, WHO, World Bank, UN DESA Population Division).
Coauthored by French Gates and Bill Gates, the report tracks progress on the United Nations’ sustainable development goals, which aim to, among other things, reduce the global maternal mortality ...
English: Number of deaths of infants under five years old per 1,000 live births by country, 2019 (source: Mortality rate, under-5 (per 1,000 live births)). This file was derived from: BlankMap-World-Microstates.svg