Table 3. Neonatal, post-neonatal, infant mortality and early child mortality among Palestine refugees, by field of operations of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, 2008.
| Field | Mortality |
Age (years) at death (age “q”)b | Mortalitya at age “q” (CI) | Infant mortalitya in host countries9,10 | MDG 4 benchmarka | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Neonatala | Post-neonatala | Infanta (CI) | |||||||||
| Jordan | 15.1 | 7.5 | 22.6 (17.3–28.3) | 2.5 | 25.4 (18.6–33.4) | 22.0 | 22.0 | ||||
| Lebanon | 14.1 | 4.9 | 19.0 (12.6–25.9) | 3.0 | 20.8 (13.0–30.9) | 27.0 | 21.3 | ||||
| Syrian Arab Republic | 17.4 | 10.8 | 28.2 (21.5–34.6) | 2.7 | 29.6 (21.9–38.0) | 16.0 | 20.0 | ||||
| West Bank | 15.4 | 4.1 | 19.5 (13.8–25.3) | 2.5 | 21.0 (14.1–29.5) | 24.0c | 22.0c | ||||
| Gaza Strip | 12.0 | 8.2 | 20.2 (15.2–25.5) | 2.5 | 22.6 (16.2–29.9) | ||||||
CI, confidence interval; MDG, Millennium Development Goal.
a Per 1000 live births.
b Age “q” is the oldest age at death as estimated by the preceding child technique. It is determined from the birth interval between the index birth and the preceding birth and the age at registration of the index child.
c Data refer to the entire territory of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
Source: Infant mortality in host countries and MDG 4 benchmark were compiled from UN MDG9 and UNICEF.10