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Infant mortality rate increases 3% in 2022, rising for 1st time in 2 decades: CDC
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Isabel Pavia/Getty Images(NEW YORK) Infant mortality rates in the United States increased last year for the first time in two decades, according to new federal provisional data.
For the report, published early Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention s National Center for Vital Statistics, researchers looked at birth/infant death data collected through the National Vital Statistics System.
Provisional data showed there were 5.6 infant deaths per 1,000 live births in 2022, which is 3% higher than the rate of 5.44 per 1,000 live births in 2021.
Although rates have been declining over the last several years, this marks the first year-to-year increase in more than two decades when the rate rose from 6.8 deaths per 1,000 in 2001 to 7.0 deaths in 2002.
The neonatal mortality rate infant deaths at less than 28 days of life also rose 3% from 3.49 per 1,000 live births in 2021 to 3.58 in 2022 and the postneonatal mortality rate infant deaths between 28 and 364 day