The infant mortality rate.. number of deaths during the year out of every thousand baby born alive in that year

- The number of cases of death within one year out of every thousand baby born alive in that year.

- The infant mortality rate is high for crude mortality rate and reflects the extent of what they offer state-of-health services to its citizens.

- In most developing countries is more than the number of deaths by age to less than 5 years.

- The infant mortality rate =

The number of deaths of children less than one year

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The total number of live births in the same year.

- Premature mortality is measured at the rate of deaths for the first month.

- Early child mortality data is less confidence data at all because the registration of infant mortality is less than the reality.