Horizontal Bar Chart: International Infant Mortality Rates:* 2002

(Deaths per 1,000 Live Births)

Hong Kong 2.3
Sweden 2.8
Singapore 2.9
Finland 3.0
Japan 3.0
Spain 3.4
Norway 3.5
Austria 4.1
France 4.1
Czech Republic 4.2
Germany 4.3
Denmark 4.4
Switzerland 4.5
Italy 4.7
Northern Ireland 4.7
Belgium 4.9
Australia 5.0
Netherlands 5.0
Portugal 5.0
Ireland 5.1
England and Wales 5.2
Scotland 5.3
Canada 5.4
Israel** 5.4
Greece 5.9
New Zealand 6.2
Cuba 6.5
United States 7.0
Hungary 7.2
Poland 7.5

*Includes countries, territories, cities, or geographic areas with at least 1 million population and with “complete” counts of live births and infant deaths as indicated in the United Nations Demographic Yearbook. Some of the variation in infant mortality rates is due to differences among countries in distinguishing between fetal and infant deaths.

**Includes data for East Jerusalem and Israeli residents in certain other territories under occupation by Israeli military forces since June 1967.

Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics. Health, United States, 2005. Hyattsville, MD: 2005