| Kasz216 said:
Infant mortality rate is higher in the US because we calculate it differently. If something is born, and then dies at a young age... it's considered an Infant. In Europeon countries babies have to be a certain size or weight before they are considered babies. If a baby is born way to small to live it is not reflected in Infant mortality rates. |
Where did you get that idea from? Here are the CIA World Fact Book infant mortality rates, without your obscure samping methods.
This entry gives the number of deaths of infants under one year old in a given year per 1,000 live births in the same year; included is the total death rate, and deaths by sex, male and female. This rate is often used as an indicator of the level of health in a country.
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2091rank.html
