Question

define infant death rate.

Answer 1

Infant death rate is the probability of a child born in a specific year or period dying before reaching the age of one

Answer 2

The Infant death rate is defined as the probability of a born child dying before reaching the age of one.

Explanation:

• The infant death rate is calculated every year. And also defined as the infant deaths for every 1000 live births.
• The infant death rate is calculated as the number of deaths in the first year of infants divided by the number of live birth, which in turn multiplied by 1000.
• The causes of infant death are poor sanitation, poor water intake, and malnourishment.
• In the year 2019, we got 28.3 deaths per 1000 live births in India.