5.5
2024 (latest)
INFANT MORTALITY
infant deaths per 1,000 live births · 1915–2024 · lower is better · CDC/NCHS National Vital Statistics System (via data.cdc.gov)
99.9
1915
101.0
high · 1916
5.4
low · 2020
−94%
since 1915
┊ dashed lines mark 1979 Oil shock & inflation peak · 1987 Black Monday crash · 1991 Gulf War recession · 2001 Dot-com bust & 9/11 · 2008 Global financial crisis · 2020 COVID-19 pandemic
Method & caveats. Deaths under age one per 1,000 live births, final data. Spliced from three NCHS publications on data.cdc.gov: the historical table (1915–2013), Health, United States infant mortality by maternal characteristics (2014–2016), and the Data Query System series (2017 onward); overlapping years agree. 1915–1932 cover the death-registration states only, not the whole country.
Sources
Every value on this page is read from the publisher below. Current and historical source documents:
- https://data.cdc.gov/d/epev-k6ss
- https://data.cdc.gov/d/nfuu-hu6j
- https://data.cdc.gov/d/j7ym-uwqy
- https://github.com/danielmiessler/substrate/tree/main/Data/US-Societal-Health
Data
| Year | Infant Mortality | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5.5 | −2% |
| 2023 | 5.6 | +0% |
| 2022 | 5.6 | +4% |
| 2021 | 5.4 | +0% |
| 2020 | 5.4 | −4% |
| 2019 | 5.6 | −2% |
| 2018 | 5.7 | −2% |
| 2017 | 5.8 | −2% |
| 2016 | 5.9 | +0% |
| 2015 | 5.9 | +2% |
| 2014 | 5.8 | −3% |
| 2013 | 6.0 | −0% |
| 2012 | 6.0 | −1% |
| 2011 | 6.1 | −1% |
| 2010 | 6.2 | −4% |
| 2009 | 6.4 | −3% |
| 2008 | 6.6 | −2% |
| 2007 | 6.8 | +1% |
| 2006 | 6.7 | −3% |
| 2005 | 6.9 | +1% |
| 2004 | 6.8 | −1% |
| 2003 | 6.8 | −2% |
| 2002 | 7.0 | +3% |
| 2001 | 6.8 | −1% |
| 2000 | 6.9 | −3% |
| 1999 | 7.1 | −1% |
| 1998 | 7.2 | +0% |
| 1997 | 7.2 | −1% |
| 1996 | 7.3 | −4% |
| 1995 | 7.6 | −5% |
| 1994 | 8.0 | −5% |
| 1993 | 8.4 | −1% |
| 1992 | 8.5 | −4% |
| 1991 | 8.9 | −3% |
| 1990 | 9.2 | −6% |
| 1989 | 9.8 | −2% |
| 1988 | 10.0 | −1% |
| 1987 | 10.1 | −3% |
| 1986 | 10.4 | −2% |
| 1985 | 10.6 | −2% |
| 1984 | 10.8 | −4% |
| 1983 | 11.2 | −3% |
| 1982 | 11.5 | −3% |
| 1981 | 11.9 | −6% |
| 1980 | 12.6 | −4% |
| 1979 | 13.1 | −5% |
| 1978 | 13.8 | −2% |
| 1977 | 14.1 | −7% |
| 1976 | 15.2 | −6% |
| 1975 | 16.1 | −4% |
| 1974 | 16.7 | −6% |
| 1973 | 17.7 | −4% |
| 1972 | 18.5 | −3% |
| 1971 | 19.1 | −4% |
| 1970 | 20.0 | −4% |
| 1969 | 20.9 | −4% |
| 1968 | 21.8 | −3% |
| 1967 | 22.4 | −5% |
| 1966 | 23.7 | −4% |
| 1965 | 24.7 | −0% |
| 1964 | 24.8 | −2% |
| 1963 | 25.2 | −0% |
| 1962 | 25.3 | +0% |
| 1961 | 25.3 | −3% |
| 1960 | 26.0 | −2% |
| 1959 | 26.4 | −3% |
| 1958 | 27.1 | +3% |
| 1957 | 26.3 | +1% |
| 1956 | 26.0 | −2% |
| 1955 | 26.4 | −1% |
| 1954 | 26.6 | −4% |
| 1953 | 27.8 | −2% |
| 1952 | 28.4 | +0% |
| 1951 | 28.4 | −3% |
| 1950 | 29.2 | −7% |
| 1949 | 31.3 | −2% |
| 1948 | 32.0 | −1% |
| 1947 | 32.2 | −5% |
| 1946 | 33.8 | −12% |
| 1945 | 38.3 | −4% |
| 1944 | 39.8 | −1% |
| 1943 | 40.4 | +0% |
| 1942 | 40.4 | −11% |
| 1941 | 45.3 | −4% |
| 1940 | 47.0 | −2% |
| 1939 | 48.0 | −6% |
| 1938 | 51.0 | −6% |
| 1937 | 54.4 | −5% |
| 1936 | 57.1 | +3% |
| 1935 | 55.7 | −7% |
| 1934 | 60.1 | +3% |
| 1933 | 58.1 | +1% |
| 1932 | 57.6 | −6% |
| 1931 | 61.6 | −5% |
| 1930 | 64.6 | −4% |
| 1929 | 67.6 | −2% |
| 1928 | 68.7 | +6% |
| 1927 | 64.6 | −12% |
| 1926 | 73.3 | +2% |
| 1925 | 71.7 | +1% |
| 1924 | 70.8 | −8% |
| 1923 | 77.1 | +1% |
| 1922 | 76.2 | +1% |
| 1921 | 75.6 | −12% |
| 1920 | 85.8 | −1% |
| 1919 | 86.6 | −14% |
| 1918 | 100.9 | +8% |
| 1917 | 93.8 | −7% |
| 1916 | 101.0 | +1% |
| 1915 | 99.9 | — |
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