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Global infant mortality rates by country

Dimension

• 195 instances (rows)
• 3 features (columns)

Description

This data set records infant mortality rates for 195 nations across the globe. The infant mortality rate for a country is the number of deaths among children under one year of age in a given year, divided by the total number of live births in that year. The data in this file are from 2019.

Variables

• Country: Name of the country
• Rate: Infant mortality rate, in deaths per 1,000 live births
• Region: Geographical region of the country (Africa/Americas/Asia/Europe/Middle East)

Reference

The original data comes from:

United Nations Children’s Fund (2019), The State of the World’s Children.

I slightly modified some of the country names; for example, replacing “Democratic People’s Republic of Korea” with “North Korea”.