TABLE 16.8.

Infant and Child Mortality Rate, 1990–2010

	Infant Mortality		Child Mortality
	1990	2010	1990	2010
World	61	40	88	57
Least developed countries	106	71	170	110
Developing countries	67	44	97	63
Industrialized countries	9	5	10	6
Sub-Saharan Africa	105	76	174	121
Latin America and the Caribbean	43	18	54	23
East Asia and Pacific	41	19	55	24
South Asia	86	52	120	67
CEE/CIS	41	19	50	23

Note: Deaths of children before reaching the age of 1 year, per 1000 live births.

CEE = Countries of Eastern Europe; CIS = Commonwealth of Independent States (Russia, Ukraine, Bylorussia, etc.); NA = not available.

Sources: United Nations Children’s Fund. State of the world’s children 2012. Table 1: Basic indicators. Available at: http://www.unicef.org/sowc/files/SOWC_2012-Main_Report_EN_21Dec2011.pdf [Accessed 6 June 2013].