| infant mortality r. |
the ratio of the number of deaths in one year of children less than one year of age to the number of live births in that year.
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| infant mortality rate |
(IMR) number of deaths of persons aged under 1 per 1,000 live births.
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| infant mortality rate |
the number of children who die before the age of one year, per thousand live births (NOT per thousand population). The IMR in Canada is 6 per thousand births, one of the lowest in the world. (In the US, without medicare, the figure is 8). In some third world countries the IMR is over 100, which means that 10% of all babies will die before age 1.
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| infant mortality rate |
The number of children out of every 1000 born alive that die before they reach the age of one year.
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| infant mortality rate |
The probability of dying between birth and exactly one year of age, expressed per 1,000 live births.
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