Infant mortality, stillbirths

Infant mortality has fallen slightly compared with previous years, the stillbirth rate has increased.

Infant mortality and stillbirths

	2019	2020	2021
Deaths of children in the first year of life	283	313	280
Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)	3,3	3,6	3,1
Stillbirths	344	319	395
Stillbirth rate (per 1000 births)	4,0	3,7	4,4

Source: BEVNAT

Until the early 1980s, the falling infant mortality rate was mainly due to a decline in deaths in the first week of life. Since the early 1990s, this decline could be attributed to a reduction in deaths of infants aged between one month and one year. Since 2010, the infant mortality has remained relatively stable. In this period about 70% of deceased infants died within the first week of their life.

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