The rate of infants dying before their first birthday rose slightly in the second year of the COVID pandemic after having fallen every year since 2015, according to new federal data.
Tuesday that the U.S. infant mortality rate inched from 5.42 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2020 to 5.44 deaths per 1,000 births in 2021.
The rate has fallen by 21% since 2005, when it hit a “recent high” of 6.86 deaths per 1,000 live births, the report said. The CDC found 19,928 babies died before reaching their first birthday in 2021, up 2% from 19,578 deaths in 2020. Over the same period, Americans had 50,645 more children, as live births increased from 3,613,647 to 3,664,292.
According to the report, the U.S. infant mortality rate has “generally trended downward” since 1995, making 2021 an outlier in the data.
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