infant mortality
noun
: the number of infants who die each year
The government is trying to reduce infant mortality.
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Health care would be cut, resulting in higher infant mortality.
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Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 13 May 2025
Those findings followed another study that reported a 12.7% rise in infant mortality in Texas after the implementation of Senate Bill 8, which bans abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected.
—Almut Winterstein, The Conversation, 30 Jan. 2025
Image Even the infant mortality rate, which communist rulers had so proudly brought to levels lower than the United States, has been climbing.
—Hannah Berkeley Cohen, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2024
Remember, few other OB/GYNs, fewer access points, higher maternal health mortality rates, higher infant mortality rates.
—/ Cbs News, CBS News, 11 May 2025
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Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 13 May 2025
Those findings followed another study that reported a 12.7% rise in infant mortality in Texas after the implementation of Senate Bill 8, which bans abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected.
—Almut Winterstein, The Conversation, 30 Jan. 2025
Image Even the infant mortality rate, which communist rulers had so proudly brought to levels lower than the United States, has been climbing.
—Hannah Berkeley Cohen, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2024
Remember, few other OB/GYNs, fewer access points, higher maternal health mortality rates, higher infant mortality rates.
—/ Cbs News, CBS News, 11 May 2025
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“Infant mortality.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/infant%20mortality. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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