Table 2.

Demographic information for circumpolar Inuit regions of Alaska, Canada, Greenland, and Russia (Chukotka) [50,51,52,53,54,55,56].

	Alaska	Canada	Greenland	Chukotka
Approximate Inuit population size	48,300	47,000 Nunavut: 30,000 Nunavik: 11,800 Nunatsiavut: 2285 Inuvialuit: 3100	51,300	1600
Birth rate in Inuit Region	High	High	Declining	n/a
Inuit infant mortality per 1000 live births	10.8	15.3 (Nunavut)	12.1	20.3
National infant mortality per 1000 live births	6.9 (US)	5.3 (Canada)	4.7 (Denmark)	13.3 (Russia)