United States - Number of infant deaths

The value for Number of infant deaths in United States was 21,451 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 109,274 in 1960 and a minimum value of 21,451 in 2020.

Definition: Number of infants dying before reaching one year of age.

Source: Estimates developed by the UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UNICEF, WHO, World Bank, UN DESA Population Division) at www.childmortality.org.

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Year Value
1960 109,274
1961 106,081
1962 102,464
1963 98,507
1964 94,320
1965 89,984
1966 85,600
1967 81,224
1968 76,932
1969 72,775
1970 68,816
1971 65,084
1972 61,571
1973 58,266
1974 55,157
1975 52,306
1976 49,769
1977 47,560
1978 45,693
1979 44,147
1980 42,879
1981 41,847
1982 41,025
1983 40,373
1984 39,869
1985 39,456
1986 39,091
1987 38,713
1988 38,257
1989 37,673
1990 36,919
1991 35,974
1992 34,880
1993 33,688
1994 32,488
1995 31,348
1996 30,343
1997 29,506
1998 28,852
1999 28,375
2000 28,068
2001 27,900
2002 27,837
2003 27,825
2004 27,823
2005 27,762
2006 27,585
2007 27,261
2008 26,788
2009 26,200
2010 25,530
2011 24,844
2012 24,184
2013 23,594
2014 23,089
2015 22,671
2016 22,334
2017 22,068
2018 21,847
2019 21,652
2020 21,451

Aggregation method: Sum

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Mortality