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  2. Death rates in the 20th century - Wikipedia

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    In the early 1900s, 6–9 women died in pregnancy-related complications for every 1,000 births, while 100 infants died before they were 1 year old. In 1999, at the end of the century, the infant mortality rate in the United States declined more than 90% to 7.2 deaths per 1,000 live births.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. Neonatology - Wikipedia

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    1 Historical developments. ... Though high infant mortality rates were recognized by the medical community at least as early as the 1860s, ... the early 1900s, ...

  6. Epidemiological transition - Wikipedia

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    In early pre-agricultural history, infant mortality rates were high and average life expectancy low. Today, life expectancy in developing countries remains relatively low, as in many Sub-Saharan African nations where it typically doesn't exceed 60 years of age. [8]

  7. 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 ...

  8. U.S. Infant Mortality Rates Increased After “Roe v ... - AOL

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    The study — published October 21 by JAMA Pediatrics — analyzed data on infant morality from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) since 2018 and compared it the infant mortality ...

  9. Estimates of historical world population - Wikipedia

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    Importantly, the estimate is also affected by the estimate of infant mortalities vs. stillborn infants, due to the very high rate of infant mortality throughout the pre-modern period. An estimate on the "total number of people who have ever lived" as of 1995 was calculated by Haub (1995) at "about 105 billion births since the dawn of the human ...