posted by i.n.kazar
As a follow-up to my examination of life expectancy here is a selected list of countries in order of "number of infant mortality deaths per 1,000 live births. On this list, the closer one is to #1 the worse the survival rate of newborns, so I'm starting from the end.
224. Singapore: 2.31 infant deaths/1000
223. Bermuda: 2.46
222. Sweden: 2.75
221. Japan: 2.79
[and again: "OK but where's the U.S., did you skip it??"]
217. France: 3.33
214. Norway: 3.58
211. Czech Republic: 3.79
204. South Korea: 4.26
198. Netherlands: 4.73
196. Australia: 4.75
193. United Kingdom: 4.85
189. Canada: 5.04
["WHAT ABOUT THE U.S.?!" ... hang on, I'm almost there]
181. Cuba: 5.82
[and now quite a decline between Communist Cuba and the next one on the list ...]
180. United States: 6.26
Yes, that is right, according to the CIA's figures your baby born in this country is 2.7 times as likely to die in infancy than a baby born in the top-ranked Singapore. At number 38 from the end of the CIA's reverse-ranked list, the U.S. ranks near the bottom of the second decile when looking at the survival rate of infants around the globe.
Still think that our money-driven health system is something to cling to? I have some ideas as to why our infant mortality rate would be so high, but I'll leave that for a possible future post.
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