There ARE differences in perinatal reporting and therefore infant mortality
reporting between STATES in the USA and also between countries. In
California a baby who is an intended therapeutic abortion who weighs 200 grams (or ANY
weight) who has a heartbeat or moves or takes one breath is a livebirth and
neonatal death. Some US states do not count the infant as a live birth until
a certain gestational age or weight. I very much doubt that many countries,
especially developing countries, count as stringently as we do in the USA.
I also know that many infant deaths go completely unreported everywhere.
Nancy
Nancy E. Wight MD, IBCLC, FABM, FAAP
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