Table 2.

Rates of SIDS, ASSB, and SUID, 2014, in selected U.S. and New Zealand populations, per 1,000 live births

	SIDS	ASSB	SUID
U.S. American Indian/Alaskan Native	0.84	Not reliable	1.92
U.S. Blacks	0.74	0.52	1.70
New Zealand Māori	Not reliable	1.40	1.82
United States	0.39	0.21	0.87
U.S. Whites	0.38	0.20	0.82
New Zealand	0.24	0.52	0.75
U.S. Hispanic	0.24	0.11	0.54
New Zealand non‐Māori	Not reliable	Not reliable	0.34
U.S. Asian	0.15	Not reliable	0.29

Note. SUID is defined as R‐95, R‐99, and W‐75 (American Indian/Alaskan Native, Black, and White refer to non‐Hispanics only). U.S. data are linked birth/death data. U.S. data came from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and National Center for Health Statistics (2017). New Zealand data are not stated as being linked and came from Ministry of Health (2017a). Numbers were denominator is less than 20 are considered “not reliable.” ASSB: Accidental Suffocation and Strangulation in Bed; SIDS: sudden infant death syndrome; SUID: sudden unexpected infant death.