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  2. Death rates in the 20th century - Wikipedia

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    Fertility rates and consequently live birth rates declined over the century, while age-adjusted death rates fell more dramatically. Children in 1999 were 10 times less likely to die than children in 1900. For adults 24–65, death rates have been halved. The death rate for Americans aged 65 to 74 fell from nearly 7% per year to fewer than 2% ...

  3. Demographics of the Victorian era - Wikipedia

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    Two major contributory factors were fertility rates and mortality rates. Britain was the first country to undergo the demographic transition and the Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions . The population of England and Wales almost doubled from 16.8 million in 1851 to 30.5 million in 1901, [ 2 ] and Scotland's population also rose rapidly ...

  4. Demographics of the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    Infant mortality rate: ... this was the case in Britain from 1900–1950." ... The current rate of infant mortality in the United Kingdom is roughly around 3.82 ...

  5. List of countries by infant and under-five mortality rates

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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 ...

  6. Mortality in the early modern period - Wikipedia

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    Children born to mothers 35 years or older had a higher risk of mortality than children born to younger mothers. linking a mother's health and a child's survival. [2] Female infants and children often had a higher mortality rate, especially in times of food insecurity, compared to male infants and children.

  7. Child mortality - Wikipedia

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    Share of children born alive that die before the age of 5 (2017) [1] Breakdown of child mortality by cause, OWID. Child mortality is the death of children under the age of five. [2] The child mortality rate (also under-five mortality rate) refers to the probability of dying between birth and exactly five years of age expressed per 1,000 live ...

  8. Child deaths at lowest level since records began - AOL

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    There were 2,226 deaths of babies and 789 deaths of children aged one to 15 in 2020, the Office for National Statistics said.

  9. Infant mortality - Wikipedia

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    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] Similarly, the child mortality rate , also known as the under-five mortality rate, compares the death rate of children up to the age of five.