Date: 2005-07-17 03:35 am (UTC)
Okay, I got some stats from the Anne Casey Foundation (which I trust more than our government)

It looks like US infant mortality rates are falling, just not as fast as in other industrialized nations. The US under 5 mortality rate is much worse than all other industrialized nations. In 1990 we were ahead of countries like Greece, Israel, and Portugal, but by 2000 they achieved lower rates for mortality in children under 5. Our infant mortality rates for poor and minority kids are appalling and are driving our stats up mostly because they have no health care...but that is a whole other debate.


Here are some links:
http://www.aecf.org/kidscount/databook/summary/summary4.htm
http://www.aecf.org/kidscount/int_data.pdf
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