Question

What is infant mortality rate ? how is it used to compare the development?

Answer 1

Infant mortality refers to deaths of young children, typically those less than one year of age. It is measured by the infant mortality rate (IMR), which is the number of deaths of children under one year of age per 1000 live births. The under-five mortality rate is also an important statistic, considering the infant mortality rate focuses only on children under one year of age

Answer 2

Infant mortality rate (IMR) is the number of deaths per 1,000 live births of children under one year of age. Therate for a given region is the number of children dying under one year of age, divided by the number of live births during the year, multiplied by 1,000