This statistic shows the 20 countries* with the highest infant mortality rate in 2024. An estimated 101.3 infants per 1,000 live births died in the first year of life in Afghanistan in 2024. Infant and child mortalityInfant mortality usually refers to the death of children younger than one ...
Data on infant mortality in the United States from the most recent release from the National Center for Health Statistics indicate a 3% increase from 2021 to 2022, the first time since 2002 that infant mortality has risen. From 2002 to 2021, there was a decrease of 22% in infant mortality...
Although substantial reductions in under-5 mortality have been observed during the past 35 years, progress in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EM
As delayed personhood often corresponds with high risk of infant death, the AVH-1 and Upper Sun River burials could suggest relatively low levels of infant mortality even as hunter-gatherers adapted to diverse geography and the shifting environments of the late Pleistocene and early Holocene. In so...
Progress in reducing the infant mortality rate in the United States has ground nearly to a halt, a national panel reported Wednesday.
Progress in child survival also diverges across age groups4. Global reductions in mortality rates of children under 5—that is, the under-5 mortality rate (U5MR)—among post-neonatal age groups are greater than those for mortality of neonates (0–28 days)4,8. It is relatively unclear how ...
Sleep environment and the risk of sudden infant death syndrome in an urban population: the Chicago Infant Mortality Study. Pediatrics. (2003) 111:1207–14. doi: 10.1542/peds.111.S1.1207 60. Baddock SA, Galland BC, Beckers MG, Taylor BJ, Bolton DP. Bed-sharing and ...
The search strategy included thesaural and free text terms and synonyms for Bordetella pertussis, primary acellular pertussis vaccination, cases, hospitalisation, mortality, and vaccine effectiveness (Supplementary Table 1). 2.2. Eligibility criteria No language filter was applied, however, only studies ...
Early infant diagnosis (EID) of HIV is crucial to reduce mortality among infected infants through early treatment initiation. However, a large proportion of HIV-exposed infants are still not tested in Kenya. Our objective was to investigate whether weekly interactive text-messages improved prevention ...
. Since 2018, new evidence has become available filling in these and other evidence gaps, such as the burden and costs of IMD in Germany. A recent study analysing the clinical and economic burden of IMD in Germany found that hospitalised IMD cases had a risk of mortality of 5.5% in the ...