Life expectancy at birth is how many years a newborn baby can expect to live if current mortality rates remain the same – i.e., if the people in a given country continue to die from disease, famine, war, or anything else at the same rates that they currently do. It’s used to demonstrate the general health conditions of a country or region.
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Thursday, November 5th, 2009Infant Mortality Rate is…
Thursday, October 29th, 2009Infant mortality rate is a measure of how many babies under one year old die each year compared to how many are born. It’s usually expressed as some number out of 1000; i.e, about 7/1,000 infants die before reaching a year old in the United States (which ranks us about 29th in the world). Areas with high poverty and poor healthcare tend to have high infant mortality rates.