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U.S. Infant Mortality Rate.

How many infants die before their first birthday?

SOURCE SNAPSHOTOct 4, 2026Reporting period shown below

The historical record

Source snapshot
5.5
per 1,000 live births
2024

Latest observation in this snapshot—not a real-time reading. 0.0 per 1,000 live births vs 2023.

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5.55.65.75.8201420162018202020222024

Fitted vertical axis · missing periods are not interpolated · annual

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Interpretation

What the number means

Deaths before age one per 1,000 live births.

The denominator is live births, not the total population. Internationally compiled estimates and domestic vital-statistics releases may differ. Small populations and uncertainty matter when moving from national to local comparisons.

What it cannot tell you

World Bank compilation of UN inter-agency estimates; may differ from domestic vital-statistics releases.

From evidence to useful work

A better question to ask

Ask maternal and infant health projects to publish their outcome definition, follow-up period, and source of verified results.

This is a prompt for investigation, not evidence that a particular policy works. A trend alone cannot establish a cause.

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Reproducibility

Exact observations

25 available observations since 2000. Annual and quarterly dates represent the start of the reporting period; fiscal years are labeled explicitly. Display values are rounded to the precision shown; downloads retain the source values.

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Infant mortality — per 1,000 live births
Reporting periodPeriod startValue
20242024-01-015.5
20232023-01-015.5
20222022-01-015.5
20212021-01-015.5
20202020-01-015.5
20192019-01-015.5
20182018-01-015.6
20172017-01-015.6
20162016-01-015.7
20152015-01-015.8
20142014-01-015.8
20132013-01-015.9
20122012-01-016.0
20112011-01-016.1
20102010-01-016.2
20092009-01-016.4
20082008-01-016.5
20072007-01-016.6
20062006-01-016.7
20052005-01-016.8
20042004-01-016.8
20032003-01-016.9
20022002-01-017.0
20012001-01-017.0
20002000-01-017.1
Source trail

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Series identifier
SP.DYN.IMRT.IN
Provider
World Bank / original statistical sources
Original source attribution
UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation, UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), uri: www.childmortality.org; World Health Organization (WHO), uri: www.childmortality.org, note: UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation; World Bank (WB), uri: www.childmortality.org, note: UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation; United Nations (UN), uri: www.childmortality.org, note: UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation, publisher: UN Population Division
Frequency
Annual
Source units
per 1,000 live births
Displayed units
per 1,000 live births
Retrieval time
2026-10-04T09:04:46.416Z
Provider database update
2026-07-13 — not the observation date
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