infant mortality
20
4.1
- noun
- /ˈɪnfənt mɔrˈtælɪti/
- Specialized
:
mortalidad infantil
- Increased education is associated with a lower infant mortality rate, as expected.
- infant mortality rate
- high infant mortality
- low infant mortality
You know, nobody, very few people lived all the way to, you know, old age, infant mortality was high.
- You know, nobody, very few people lived all the way to, you know, old age, infant mortality was high.
- The film really rocked a generation of of parents and the US has the highest rates of maternal and infant mortality in the Western world.
- I'm saying that modernism starts with a increase in the life expectancy of old people and the decrease in infant mortality.
- And slowly infant mortality rates decline.
- So just to give you some context on South Memphis, the infant mortality rate is higher than most or many third world nations.
- And that that that for example, Filipino Americans have an infant mortality twice that of Chinese Americans.
Examples
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Increases in real GDP are associated with a reduction in infant mortality.
Academic text (1991) -
Our results indicate that infant mortality is greatly influenced by higher levels of real GDP.
Academic text (1991) -
And these also more than three times the rate of infant mortality in the high income countries.
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Greater efficiency in home health care should lead to lower infant mortality.
Academic text (1991) -
So just to give you some context on South Memphis, the infant mortality rate is higher than most or many third world nations.
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The conventional explanation for the high U.S. infant mortality rate focuses on poverty.
Academic text (1991) -
What is more, the book notes, the gap between black and white infant-mortality rates in America is widening.
Academic text (1990) -
At the turn of the century, the infant mortality rate stood at a staggering 34 percent.
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Our empirical study also finds that more abundant medical services cause infant mortality to decline by a substantial percentage.
Academic text (1991) -
The infant mortality rate in developing countries is significantly higher than in developed nations.
Synonyms
7
3.7
Number of babies who die before their first birthday per 1,000 live births
The number of babies who die before their first birthday for every 1,000 live births
How Common
- Specialized
20
4.1
- Specialized
1
6.0
- Specialized
1
5.2
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'infant' (young child) + 'mortality' (deaths in a population) yields deaths among infants, so a learner who knows both constituents can infer the phrase. This noun–noun combination is a common, cross-linguistic demographic term (e.g., Spanish 'mortalidad infantil'), making it transparently interpretable despite being somewhat technical.
Etymology
Infant mortality simply joins infant, meaning a baby, and mortality, meaning death. It comes from the practice of health workers counting how many babies die before their first birthday, so today it means the 'death rate among infants'.