Table 2. Death rate among children preceding the youngest neonate in birth order, mean interval between births and reference time, by field of operations of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, 2008.

Field	Deaths in preceding children				Mean birth interval (months)		Reference timea
	No.	%	Corrected %8
Jordan	81	2.3	2.55		36.9		Jan 2006
Lebanon	34	1.9	2.09		43.7		Aug 2005
Syrian Arab Republic	85	2.7	2.96		40.5		Nov 2005
West Bank	41	1.9	2.10		36.2		Jan 2006
Gaza Strip	77	2.1	2.26		36.8		Jan 2006

^a Month and year that the mortality estimates refer to, calculated from the mean birth interval and the mean age of the youngest neonate at the time of registration.⁵