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infant mortality
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statistical concept of infant deaths
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World map of infant mortality rates in 2023
Infant mortality is the death of an infant before its first birthday. 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. 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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “infant mortality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.