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. 2019 Mar 18;48(Suppl 1):i54–i62. doi: 10.1093/ije/dyy129

Table 5.

Number of deaths and cause-specific infant-mortality rates 1982–2015

1982 1993 2004 2015
N rate per 1000 live births (95% CI) N rate per 1000 live births (95% CI) N rate per 1000 live births (95% CI) N rate per 1000 live births (95% CI) p
Perinatal 92 57 41 36 0.001
15.6 (12.4–18.7) 10.9 (8.1–13.7) 9.7 (6.7–12.6) 8.4 (5.7–11.2)
Congenital malformations 27 25 8 7 0.002
4.6 (2.8–6.3) 4.8 (2.9–6.6) 1.9 (0.6–3.2) 1.6 (0.4–2.8)
Diarrhoea 25 9 1 0 <0.001
4.2 (2.6–5.9) 1.7 (0.6–2.8) 0.2 (0.0–0.7) 0.00
Respiratory infections 25 7 13 4 0.007
4.2 (2.6–5.9) 1.3 (0.3–2.3) 3.1 (1.4–4.7) 0.9 (0.0–1.9)
Other infections 18 1 5 2 0.002
3.0 (1.6–4.4) 0.2 (0.0–0.6) 1.2 (0.1–2.2) 0.5 (0.0–1.1)
Other causes or ill-defined 28 12 14 10 0.069
4.7 (3.0–6.4) 2.3 (1.0–3.6) 3.3 (1.6–5.0) 2.3 (0.9–3.8)
Total 215 111 82 59

p-value: χ2 for trend.