Sentences with phrase «child mortality rates per»

States with the highest child mortality rates per 100,000 per year were Mississippi (3.23); Wyoming (3.06); Alabama (2.71); Montana (2.23); West Virginia (2.16); Oklahoma (2.02).

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In the cost - effectiveness analysis (GiveWell estimate of Living Goods cost effectiveness (November 2014)-RRB-, in all Sheets except for «U5MR (Jake's assumptions),» we use 5q0, or the probability of a child dying before his or her 5th birthday expressed in deaths per 1,000 live births assuming constant mortality rates throughout childhood, instead of the under - 5 mortality rate (under 5 deaths per person per year), because the original report on the RCT we received from Living Goods reported outcomes in terms of 5q0.

Cuba, a poorer country than the United States but with substantially higher breastfeeding rates and much better breastfeeding support, has an under - 5 mortality rate of 7 children per 1,000 live births (better than the United -LSB-...]

This effort is credited with radically decreasing the country's infant mortality rate from 65 deaths for each 1,000 children born in 1938 to 3 deaths per 1,000 births in 2013.

6.1 per thousand is the INFANT mortality rate, including all deaths of children through age year.

In 2001, 70 % of mothers left the hospital breastfeeding, and 33 % were still breastfeeding at 6 months.25 If we assume that the risk structure has not changed as the overall rates have fallen, then the overall postneonatal mortality rate, a weighted average of the rate among those who were breastfed and those who were not, consists of 70 % of children who are breastfed when they leave the hospital and who have a rate of 2.1 per 1000, and 30 % of children who are not breastfed and have a rate of 2.7.

Britain has a child mortality rate of 1630 deaths per one million children, according to the study, which was led by Professor Colin Pritchard of Bournemouth University.

Over the past 200,000 years, replacement - level fertility rates have ranged from 2.1 to 3.0 children per couple, he said, noting that global population remained remarkably stable until the beginning of the 19th century, when decreased mortality in newborns resulted in fertility rates exceeding replacement levels.

Safest was the Northeast, with 189 child fatalities and a mortality rate of 0.38 per 100,000 children per year.

The South proved deadliest: 1,550 children died in fatal wrecks; a mortality rate of 1.34 per 100,000 children per year.

The 2,885 child fatalities represented a mortality rate of 0.94 per 100,000 children per year.

The West had 561 child fatalities, a mortality rate of 0.76 per 100,000 children per year.

The Midwest had 585 child fatalities, a mortality rate of.89 per 100,000 children per year.

The mortality rate of children under 5 years of age is 140 per 1000, and life expectancy at birth is only 54 years.

Across Europe as a whole, child mortality rates are substantially worse in Central Europe (average mortality rate 6.7 deaths per 1000 births) and Eastern Europe (average mortality rate 9.7 deaths per 1000 births); the UK's under - 5 mortality rate is comparable to that of Serbia and Poland.

The mortality rate in the UK for children under five is 4.9 deaths per 1000 births, more than double that in Iceland (2.4 per 1000 births), the country with the lowest mortality rates.

The landlocked nation faces extreme development challenges, including an adult HIV prevalence rate of 10 per cent, and very high levels of infant and child mortality.

In measurements of infant mortality, for example, the number of children who died in the wealthiest area of Nairobi, Kenya, was below 15 per thousand, whereas in a slum called Emabakasi there, the death rate was 254 per thousand, the report says.

This is a time for optimism and celebration of the remarkable gains to which the MDGs have contributed worldwide, including: decreasing the global share of people living on less than $ 1.25 per day by more than two - thirds since 1990; more than halving the rate of child mortality; and reaching gender parity in primary - school enrollment.

So a 20 percent increase in the rule of law, for example, would increase a nation's GDP by $ 16,644, decrease its homicide rate by two per 100,000 population, decrease child mortality rates by 14.1 per 1,000, and add 5.2 years to average life expectancy.