title: Infant Mortality Rates by Selected Background Characteristics
unit_of_measure: Deaths per 1000 births
linearized_input: Infant Mortality Rates by Selected Background Characteristics | Deaths per 1000 births | (Turkey, 29) (Urban, 23) (Rural, 39) (West, 22) (South, 29) (Central, 21) (North, 34) (East, 41) (No education/ Primary Incomplete, 51) (First Level Primary, 25) (Second Level Primary, 19) (High School and Higher, 17)
table_text: The infant mortality rate in the rural areas is about 70 percent higher than in urban areas. Infant and under-five mortality rates are higher than the national average in the North and East regions. The infant mortality rate among children of mothers who have had no education or had not completed primary school is 3 times higher than among the children of women with high school or more education. The perinatal mortality rate exhibits a U-shaped relationship with the age of the mother; the rate declines to 19 per thousand when the mother’s age is 20-29. Almost 2 out of five children born in the five years preceding the survey were at elevated risk of dying at the time of their birth. The probability of dying is considerably higher for infants born from a mother who was older than 34 and who already had at least three births.
target: The infant mortality rate in the rural areas is about 70 percent higher than in urban areas.