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Infant Mortality by Year, New Jersey and the United States, 2000 to 2021
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Why Is This Important?
In addition to giving us key information about maternal and infant health, the infant mortality rate is an important marker of the overall health of a society.1
Definition
Infant mortality is the death of an infant before his or her first birthday. The infant mortality rate is the number of infant deaths for every 1,000 live births.
Data Notes
This is Healthy New Jersey 2020 (HNJ2020) Objective MCH-1.Confidence limits are not available for the U.S. data.
Data Sources
- Birth Certificate Database, Office of Vital Statistics and Registry, New Jersey Department of Health
(https://www.nj.gov/health/vital/) - Linked Infant Death-Birth Database, Center for Health Statistics, New Jersey Department of Health
(https://www.nj.gov/health/chs/) - Linked Birth/Infant Death Records, CDC WONDER On-line Database, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(https://wonder.cdc.gov/lbd.html)
How the Measure is Calculated
Numerator:
Number of resident deaths occurring under 1 year of ageDenominator:
Number of live births to resident mothers
Related Health Objectives and Indicators
Health Initiative: HP2030
Healthy People 2030 Objective MICH-02
U.S. Target: Reduce the rate of infant deaths to 5.0 per 1,000 live births by 2030.0
https://health.gov/healthypeople/objectives-and-data/browse-objectives/infants/reduce-rate-infant-deaths-mich-02
Health Initiative: HP2020
Healthy People 2020 Objective MICH-1.3
U.S. Target: Reduce the rate of all infant deaths (within 1 year) to 6.0 infant deaths per 1,000 live births by 2020.0
https://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/topics-objectives/topic/maternal-infant-and-child-health
Health Initiative: HNJ2020
Healthy NJ 2020 Objective MCH-1
NJ Target: Reduce infant deaths to 4.8 per 1,000 live births for the total population, 2.2 for Asians, 6.0 for Blacks, 4.5 for Hispanics, and 1.9 for Whites by 2020.0
https://www.nj.gov/health/chs/hnj2020/topics/maternal-child-health.shtml
Health Initiative: EPHT
Environmental Public Health Tracking Indicator RBO-15
Description: Infant, neonatal, postneonatal, and perinatal mortality rates
https://ephtracking.cdc.gov/indicatorPages?selectedContentAreaAbbreviation=8&selectedIndicatorId=15