(geography) The total number of deaths in a year among infants under one year of age for every 1,000 live births in a society.
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Infant-mortality-rate Sentence Examples
The infant mortality rate had stood at 121 per 1,000 live births.
The infant mortality rate is the number of deaths of infants under one year of age per 1,000 live births in a given population.
The overall infant mortality rate in 2002 for all races was 7.0 per 1,000 live births, which was a slight increase over the previous year.
In 2002, the United States' infant mortality rate varied widely by race of the mother from 14.3 for infants of black mothers to 5.9 for infants of Hispanic mothers to 5.8 for infants of white mothers.
The U.S. infant mortality rate is of great concern because the United States has fallen to the twenty-second nd place among industrialized nations in infant mortality rankings.