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I can't comment on infant mortality rates. I imagine that making valid
comparisions is difficult. However, maternal mortality would be a simpler
comparision I imagine. I was looking at some stats the other day in an Oxfam
publication (data from WHO) and they cite lifetime maternal mortality as
follows,
Canada 1 in 8000, Sweden 1 in 6000, UK, 1 in 5100, US, 1 in 3500. If you go
to the other end Afghanistan and Sierra Leone have 1 in 6. From memory
Australia is something like 1 in 5800. Quite a remarkable variation amongst
industrialised societies I thought.
Karleen Gribble
Australia
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/what_we_do/issues/debt_aid/downloads/bp52_childbirth.pdf
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> The USA has one of the very lowest, if not the lowest,
birthweight-specific
> infant mortality rates. In terms of overall infant mortality rates, our
> poplulations are quite a bit different in terms of heterogeneity, than
most of the
> countries with better IMRs.
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