What is Infant mortality?
[[File:Infant mortality 2008 world map.svg|thumb|A map with the infant mortality rates; lower rates are shades of blue; average rates shades of green and higher rates shades of red]] '''Infant mortality''' is a measure of how many babies [[death|die]] during the first 12 months after [[birth]]. It is usually measured as being a number of deaths for every thousand births. The rate of infant mortality in a given place is the total number of babies dying under one year of age divided by the total number of live births during the year, then all multiplied by 1,000. For example, in 2009 the infant mortality rate in the [[USA]] was 6.8.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&met_y=sp_dyn_imrt_in&idim=country:USA&dl=en&hl=en&q=infant+mortality |title=World Bank, World Development Indicators |accessdate=5 October 2011 |format= |work=Google public data explorer }}</ref> That means for every 1000 births, 6.8 babies will die before the age of one. ==References== {{reflist}} ==Related pages== *[[Least developed country]] {{biology-stub}} [[Category:Death]] [[Category:Statistics]]