Infant-mortality-rate Definition

noun
(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
Plural:
infant mortality rates

Infant-mortality-rate Sentence Examples

  • 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 infant mortality rate had stood at 121 per 1,000 live births.

  • 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.

  • Similarly the infant mortality rate for unmarried mothers is often more than 83 percent higher than the mortality rate for married women.

  • Likewise, the infant mortality rate is characteristically higher for the infants of mothers who smoke than for those of nonsmokers.

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