Infant mortality in North America

25 countries in North America, 2024. Unit: per 1,000 live births. World ranking →

First in the ranking
3.0 ‰
Median country
11.4 ‰
half above, half below
World
27.7 ‰
World Bank aggregate
Range
3.0 to 39.0
Turks and Caicos Islands - Haiti

How to read it

Across 25 countries in North America, the highest value is in Haiti (39.0 ‰) and the lowest in Turks and Caicos Islands (3.0 ‰).

The median country is at 11.4 ‰: half are above, half below.

Infant mortality rate is the number of infants dying before reaching one year of age, per 1,000 live births in a given year.

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Source: UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation, UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), uri: www.childmortality.org; World Health Organization (WHO), uri… · via World Bank WDI (SP.DYN.IMRT.IN) · licence

Infant mortality over time

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Ranking of countries

2024
In chart Share of the highest value
1Turks and Caicos Islands3.0
2Canada4.7
3United States5.5
4Cuba6.8
5Antigua and Barbuda7.0
6El Salvador8.8
7Barbados9.1
8Costa Rica9.1
9Nicaragua9.4
10Saint Vincent and the Grenadines10.2
11Belize10.8
12Bahamas11.1
13British Virgin Islands11.4
14Panama12.0
15Mexico12.1
16Honduras12.8
17Saint Kitts and Nevis13.9
18Saint Lucia15.8
19Grenada16.4
20Jamaica16.4
21Trinidad and Tobago17.0
22Guatemala17.2
23Dominican Republic27.7
24Dominica33.3
25Haiti39.0
World Bank, WDI · SP.DYN.IMRT.IN · 2024 · CC BY 4.0 Source and licence

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