Infant Mortality

The Swedish health economist Hans Rosling once gave students a list of five pairs of countries and asked which nation in each pair had the higher infant-mortality rate. ❋ Matt Ridley (2010)

Of course, the obvious material advantages that come with being born white — lower infant-mortality rates and easier-to-acquire bank loans, for example — tend to undercut any sympathy that this sense of marginalization might generate. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Nearly all developed nations enjoy a longer life expectancy and a lower infant-mortality rate than the U.S., and they offer their citizens universal medical insurance, either government-sponsored, run by private companies, or operated cooperatively by the public and private sectors. ❋ Unknown (2010)

India's infant-mortality rate—50 deaths per 1,000 births—is worse than Brazil's and China's. ❋ Amol Sharma (2011)

This in a country that prior to the glorious revolution enjoyed a lower infant-mortality rate and more doctors and dentists per-capita than half of European countries, plus a larger middle class than Switzerland. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Maternal and infant care is a large potential market in this country of 1.2 billion people with its infant-mortality rate of 55 children for every 1,000 born. ❋ Megha Bahree (2011)

Note that, for White women, mothers have children in the early thirties face less than half the infant-mortality risk of those having children as teenagers. ❋ Philip N. Cohen (2010)

They have the continent's lowest level of corruption, the lowest infant-mortality rate, and the lowest number of people living below the poverty line. ❋ Bret Stephens (2010)

More than half of Bihar's 82 million people live below the poverty line, compared with about 40 percent for the rest of India; both the infant-mortality rate and - maternal-mortality rate are higher than the national average; and some 70 percent of the state's inhabited areas are not linked by motorable roads. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In all, the Journal looked at eight factors, a list that also included per capita gross domestic product, infant-mortality rate, the number of cars bought per month per capita and average daily protein intake of all citizens as measured by the United Nations 'Food and Agriculture Organization. ❋ David Biderman (2010)