The infant mortality rate is calculated by dividing the number of infants who die within one year of birth by the number of infants who are born. The infant mortality rate is usually expressed as ...

The paper analyzed data from a CDC database that is different from the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System hit hard ...

The study, published Monday by JAMA Pediatrics, analyzed the infant mortality rate before and 18 months after Dobbs v. Jackson overturned Roe V. Wade.

See the Best States methodology for a detailed look at the data behind the analysis. 50 States #1 in Low Infant Mortality Rate ...

Worldwide, the average infant mortality rate is 27.9 deaths per 1,000 live births. In the small European country of San Marino, there are just 1.3 infant deaths per 1,000 live births, the lowest ...

The infant mortality rate in the United States recently rose for the first time in two decades, according to a provisional report by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s ...

The researchers analyzed monthly infant-mortality-rate data from the CDC between 2018 and 2023. Using a sophisticated statistical model, they purportedly found an increase in the infant mortality ...

Preliminary numbers from the Ohio Department of Children and Youth put the state’s infant mortality rate at 6.5 per 1,000 live births for 2024. “That’s 80 fewer babies dying,” Director Kar ...

Two local authors are inviting the community to join them in celebrating the strides made in reducing infant mortality rates ...

This metric reflects the rate of deaths in a state, age-adjusted and scaled per 100,000 population using data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The mortality rate metric is one ...