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Infant Mortality Rates for Countries, Stratified by Income Group (a) and Region (b), 1967‐2015
Data derived from the World Bank 2015.4
In 2015 the IMR in LMICs was 53.2 deaths per 1,000 live births, which is comparable to the United States in 1935 when the IMR was 55.7 deaths per 1,000 live births. The IMR ranged from a maximum of 96 deaths per 1,000 live births in Angola to a minimum of 1.5 deaths per 1,000 live births in Luxembourg.4
