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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 ...
note: widespread ongoing transmission of a respiratory illness caused by the novel coronavirus is occurring throughout South Africa; as of 6 June 2022, South Africa has reported a total of 3,968,205 cases of COVID-19 or 6,690.7 cumulative cases of COVID-19 per 100,000 population with a total of 101,317 cumulative deaths or a rate of 170.83 ...
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]
Millennium Development Goal 5 represents a change of two colors (75% reduction) for each nation.. The Save the Children State of the World's Mothers report (SOWM report) [1] is an annual report by the Save the Children USA, which compiles statistics on the health of mothers and children and uses them to produce rankings of more than 170 countries, showing where mothers fare best and where they ...
New data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reveals that the infant mortality rate in the U.S. rose 3% from 2021 to 2022, marking the first year-to-year increase in 20 years.
Globally, the risk of a child dying in the country with the highest under-5 mortality rate is about 60 times higher than in the country with the lowest under-5 mortality rate. [3] Sub-Saharan Africa remains the region with the highest under-5 mortality rates in the world: All six countries with rates above 100 deaths per 1,000 live births are ...
Rank Country HDI 2022 data (2023-2024 report) rankings; Very high human development: 1 Seychelles: 0.802 High human development: 2 Mauritius: 0.796 3 Libya: 0.746 4 Algeria: 0.745 5 Tunisia: 0.732 6 Egypt: 0.728 7 South Africa: 0.717 8 Botswana: 0.708 Medium human development: 9 Morocco: 0.699 10 Gabon: 0.693
Wade, which granted women the right to an abortion in every state. Researchers found that after the ruling, overall infant mortality increased by 7% and increased by 10% for infants with disabilities.