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- <text id=93AC0460>
- <title>
- Infant, Maternal & Neonatal Mortality Rates:1970-91
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- <history>
- Compact ALMANAC--United States Statistics
- Vital Statistics
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Almanac</source>
- <hdr>
- Infant, Maternal, & Neonatal Mortality Rates, Fetal Mortality Ratios, by Race: 1970 - 1991
- [Deaths per 1,000 live births, except as noted.]
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- <tblhdr><cell>Item<cell type=i>1970<cell type=i>1975<cell type=i>1980<cell type=i>1985<cell type=i>1990<cell type=i>1991
- <row><cell type=a>INFANT DEATHS(1)<cell type=n>20.0<cell type=n>16.1<cell type=n>12.6<cell type=n>10.6<cell type=n>9.2<cell type=n>8.9
- <row><cell>White<cell>17.8<cell>14.2<cell>11.0<cell>9.3<cell>7.7<cell>7.3
- <row><cell>Black & other<cell>30.9<cell>24.2<cell>19.1<cell>15.8<cell>14.4<cell>15.1
- <row><cell>Black<cell>32.6<cell>26.2<cell>21.4<cell>18.2<cell>17.0<cell>17.6
- <row><cell>MATERNAL DEATHS(2)<cell>21.5<cell>12.8<cell>9.2<cell>7.8<cell>8.2<cell>7.9
- <row><cell>White<cell>14.4<cell>9.1<cell>6.7<cell>5.2<cell>5.4<cell>5.8
- <row><cell>Black & other<cell>55.9<cell>29.0<cell>19.8<cell>18.1<cell>19.1<cell>15.6
- <row><cell>Black<cell>59.8<cell>31.3<cell>21.5<cell>20.4<cell>22.4<cell>18.3
- <row><cell>FETAL DEATHS(3)<cell>14.2<cell>10.7<cell>9.2<cell>7.9<cell>7.5<cell>(NA)
- <row><cell>White<cell>12.4<cell>9.5<cell>8.2<cell>7.0<cell>6.4<cell>(NA)
- <row><cell>Black & other<cell>22.6<cell>16.0<cell>13.4<cell>11.3<cell>(NA)<cell>(NA)
- <row><cell>NEONATAL DEATHS(4)<cell>15.1<cell>11.6<cell>8.5<cell>7.0<cell>5.8<cell>5.6
- <row><cell>White<cell>13.8<cell>10.4<cell>7.5<cell>6.1<cell>4.9<cell>4.5
- <row><cell>Black & other<cell>21.4<cell>16.8<cell>12.5<cell>10.3<cell>9.2<cell>9.5
- <row><cell>Black<cell>22.8<cell>18.3<cell>14.1<cell>12.1<cell>10.9<cell>11.2
- </table>
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- <item>1. Represents deaths of infants under one year old, exclusive of fetal deaths.
- <item>2. Per 100,000 live births; from deliveries and complications of pregnancy, childbirth, and the puerperium.
- <item>3. Includes only those deaths with stated or presumed period of gestation of 20 weeks or more.
- <item>4. Represents deaths of infants under 28 days old, exclusive of fetal deaths.
- </list>
- <p>Source: U.S. National Center for Health Statistics.
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- </body>
- </article>
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