infant mortality
noun
: the number of infants who die each year
The government is trying to reduce infant mortality.
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Mississippi last week declared a public health emergency due to the state’s alarmingly high infant mortality rate.
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Arthur L. Kellermann, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
These cuts come at a time when key indicators like infant mortality rates and life expectancy rates are worsening.
—Alana Semuels, Time, 27 Aug. 2025
Studies conducted in the region surrounding the Semipalatinsk test site found that cancer mortality rates and infant mortality rates during the most intensive period of nuclear testing, from 1949 to 1962, were higher than elsewhere in Kazakhstan.
—Issy Ronald, CNN Money, 24 Aug. 2025
Granted, that was due to high rates of infant mortality, but there was tuberculosis, pneumonia, consumption (another name for tuberculosis), factory accidents, scarlet fever, and more tuberculosis.
—Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 11 Aug. 2025
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Arthur L. Kellermann, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
These cuts come at a time when key indicators like infant mortality rates and life expectancy rates are worsening.
—Alana Semuels, Time, 27 Aug. 2025
Studies conducted in the region surrounding the Semipalatinsk test site found that cancer mortality rates and infant mortality rates during the most intensive period of nuclear testing, from 1949 to 1962, were higher than elsewhere in Kazakhstan.
—Issy Ronald, CNN Money, 24 Aug. 2025
Granted, that was due to high rates of infant mortality, but there was tuberculosis, pneumonia, consumption (another name for tuberculosis), factory accidents, scarlet fever, and more tuberculosis.
—Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 11 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for infant mortality
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“Infant mortality.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/infant%20mortality. Accessed 4 Sep. 2025.
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