The infant mortality rate is calculated by dividing the number of infants who die within one year of birth by the number of infants who are born. The infant mortality rate is usually expressed as ...

At Vox’s Future Perfect, the section I run, we like to refer to the drastic drop in child mortality as the most important statistic in the world, for several reasons: There is no secret formula ...

A new report presented in New York on 8 April reveals that current United Nations projections on infant mortality rates are inaccurate.

stock.adobe.com Share If infant mortality is a barometer of a nation’s health, the United States is failing, with one of the highest infant mortality rates among countries in the Organization ...

(Unsplash) The United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation report, released Tuesday, cited the example of five “exemplar countries” in achieving child mortality reduction ...