Infant-mortality-rate Definition

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.

• 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.