Infant death rate
[back] Statistics  [back] Child health

[After making vaccines compulsory the USA dropped from 3rd in the table of infant mortality to 24th. Due no doubt to their high incidence of cot-death (8,000). The Japanese (pop 120 million) after delaying the DPT vaccine until the second year, in 1975 & 76,   immediately jumped from 17th place to the country with the lowest infant mortality in the world. In 1988 they lowered the minimum age again and the infant mortality immediately increased again.]

See: Well being  Poverty

[2007] United States Has Higher Death Rate Than Most Other Countries

[2006 India] Shocking !! Infant mortality comes down with fall in immunisation rates!!

[Media May 2006] U.S. has second worst newborn death rate in modern world, report says

[Letter BMJ Feb 2005] The Infant Mortality Rate: An Index of a Nation’s Health by F. Edward Yazbak

[2004] Infant Mortality Rate Increase--now USA is 28th

Infant death rate (under 1 year old per 1,000 births)

WHO infant deaths http://www-nt.who.int/whosis/statistics/whsa/whsa_table2.cfm?path=evidence,whsa,whsa_table2&language=english

 1997, second figure 2006 
Luxemborg                                    3.45
Singapore                                     3.76
Sweden (1996)                             3.82
Japan                                            3.65
Finland (1996)                              3.91
Austria                                          4.73
France (1996)                                4.76
Germany                                      4.86
Spain (1995)                                5.49
Slovenia                                      5.21
Canada                                         5.52
Uk                                                5.86 per 1,000
Czech republic                            5.85
Denmark (1996)                           5.51
Australia (1995)                             5.55
Ireland (1996)                              5.98
Iceland (1995)                              6.07
Italy        (1995)                           6.19
Israel (1996)                                 6.32                          6.89
Malta                                           6.41                          3.86
Portugal                                      6.43                           4.98
Greece                                          6.43                         5.43
New Zealand (1996)                  7.26                         5.76
USA                                            7.22 per 1,000      6.43
Cuba (1996)                                 7.90                        6.22
Croatia                                         8.23                       6.72
Hungary                                     9.85                         8.39
Estonia                                       10.05                     7.73
Lithuania                                  10.34                       6.78
Poland (1996)                           12.20                       7.22
Latvia                                         15.34                     9.35
Moldova                                   20.65                      38.38
Mauritius                                   20.33                      14.59
Brazil (1995)                                  26.25
Argentina (1996)                           20.87

CDC fetal deaths http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/about/major/fetaldth/abfetal.htm http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/pubs/pubd/hus/tables/2000/updated/00hus023.pdf
Terms USA:
Perinatal:  3 months before to one month after birth
Infant: Under 1 year of age (1998 & 1997--7.2 per 1,000 births)
Child
Fetal: 20 weeks or more gestation
Neonatal: Under 28 days
Early neonatal: Under 7 days
Post neonatal: 28 days to 100 months