For example, the infant mortality rate in rural areas was 102 per 1,000 live births in 2000, 114 in 2001 and 108 in 2002, as opposed to a rate of 38 64 in Dushanbe.

Infant mortality also dropped to 15.67 per 1,000 live births in 2003 from 20.36 in 1999.

Out of the total number of dead infants in 2001, 55,1 were male and 44,9 were female.

Infant mortality rate Refers exclusively to the ratio of deaths in one year of live born infants who have not yet reached their first birthday to the total number of live births the same year.

Infant mortality has declined from 57 per 1000 live births during 1988 92 to 38.1 per 1000 during 1996 2000.

Thirty Years of Test Tube Babies

A conspicuous fall of 48 per cent occurred in infant mortality rates during the period 1993 2001 the rate stood at 34.6 per 1,000 in 1993 and at 18.1 per 1,000 in 2001.

The Republic's infant mortality rate for the period from 1993 through 2004 has declined (40.7 per 1,000 live births in 1993, 30.7 in 1997 and 13.9 for the first quarter of 2004).

The number of live births declined and the number of infants who died between birth and the age of six days increased in comparison to the situation in 2000.

In 1992, the infant mortality rate in urban areas was 18.2 per 1,000 live births, while in rural areas it was 17.4.

(c) A higher infant mortality rate in the past few years

Infant mortality during the first year of life

The baby?

Figure 6 Evolution of child mortality (1987 2002) (Rates per thousand live births)

(i) BCG vaccination of infants in 1993 95.2

A baby!

Stroller?

(baby cries)

Baby Crying

You surely cannot mean that seriously!

By 1990, 27.1 per cent of all births were to women under 20 and over 35 years of age, those to women under 20 accounting for 19.4 per cent, and there was little difference between urban and rural areas.

But the Taiwanese babies are getting better, not the American babies.

Infant mortality has declined by 48 per cent in the last 20 years from 54 to 28 deaths per 1,000 live births.

I know how worried you are.

(Baby crying)

Bathing the baby.

Feeding the baby.

The infant in the manger.

In the stroller?

(baby cries)

(baby cries)

(baby crying)

The Programme of Action urged that by 2000, under five mortality should be reduced by one third or to a maximum of 70 deaths per 1,000 births in all countries, and that under five mortality should decline to below 45 deaths per 1,000 births in all countries by 2015 (para. 8.16), a goal consistent with the United Nations Millennium Declaration's goal of reducing under five mortality by two thirds between 1990 and 2015.

Babies play, kids play, adults play.

Post infant mortality after the first year and before the fourth birthday

INFANT AND CHILD MORTALITY

Infant mortality rates continue to be high 95 per 1,000 live births.

(b) A fall in the infant mortality rate from 51.4 per 1,000 in 1984 to 34.9 per 1,000 in 1994

The baby is sleeping.

Infant Mortality

Infant Child

INFANT MORTALITY

Infant mortality Marriages

The baby?

But a baby!