infant mortality rate
- Guideline or reference source
- WHO Glossary
- Definition
- Infant mortality rate is the total number of infants dying before reaching the age of one year per 1,000 live births in a given year. It is an approximation of the number of deaths per 1,000 children born alive who die within one year of birth.
- Narrower Term
- mortality rate
- Related Term
- maternal mortality rate
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