Before I was born, my mums first child died first day or second day I think. Guess I was more lucky
Huh, I wonder how this shifts from rural to urban. And how distance to hospitals and availability of EMS services impacts this.
Nice chart! If you aggregate them all up across the 365 first days, I imagine you get something close to the infant mortality rate (defined as the number of deaths of children under one year, per 1000 live births)?
FWIW, it should add up to around 5.5 in the US, compared to around 4.0 as the OECD average (and around 1.7 in Japan and Norway, just to show the range of possible outcomes). When controlling for per capita healthcare expenditures (which are very high in the US), the US is quite an outlier.
There’s lots of heterogeneity across ethnicities too in the US; black infants face roughly 3x the mortality rates of Asian infants (based on recent CDC estimates).
I would say the chance declines exponentially not gradually. Since it’s a log scale
Also: Adult mortality rates are highest on the day of death.
I wonder how this would look if you also included days before a baby was born (maybe based on due date?). I suspect the day of birth would still be an order of magnitude higher, but it would be interesting to see.
In computer-lingo we call this “DOA”.
Modern medicine’s impact on infant mortality rates is jaw dropping.
Is that first point the one that most countries outside the US call a stillbirth and not include in infant mortality figures?
What’s the cumulative death rate in the first year of life?
Is the US more biased to first-week mortality than other developed nations? There’s more pressure in the US for mothers to carry unviable pregancies to term, sometimes legally forced to do so.
In South Korea there is a celebration on the infant’s 100th day, makes sense looking at this.
![[OC] Infant mortality rates are highest on the day of birth](https://www.europesays.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/snt2amhgw9id1-1920x1024.jpeg)
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[OC] I made this chart using ggplot and Adobe Illustrator.
The data comes from the CDC. The data and code to recreate this chart can be found on [GitHub](https://github.com/owid/notebooks/tree/main/SaloniDattani%2FChild-mortality%2FMortality-after-birth)
This chart is part of an [article](https://ourworldindata.org/how-do-the-risks-of-death-change-as-people-age) I wrote for Our World in Data.
Before I was born, my mums first child died first day or second day I think. Guess I was more lucky
Huh, I wonder how this shifts from rural to urban. And how distance to hospitals and availability of EMS services impacts this.
Nice chart! If you aggregate them all up across the 365 first days, I imagine you get something close to the infant mortality rate (defined as the number of deaths of children under one year, per 1000 live births)?
FWIW, it should add up to around 5.5 in the US, compared to around 4.0 as the OECD average (and around 1.7 in Japan and Norway, just to show the range of possible outcomes). When controlling for per capita healthcare expenditures (which are very high in the US), the US is quite an outlier.
There’s lots of heterogeneity across ethnicities too in the US; black infants face roughly 3x the mortality rates of Asian infants (based on recent CDC estimates).
I would say the chance declines exponentially not gradually. Since it’s a log scale
Also: Adult mortality rates are highest on the day of death.
I wonder how this would look if you also included days before a baby was born (maybe based on due date?). I suspect the day of birth would still be an order of magnitude higher, but it would be interesting to see.
In computer-lingo we call this “DOA”.
Modern medicine’s impact on infant mortality rates is jaw dropping.
Is that first point the one that most countries outside the US call a stillbirth and not include in infant mortality figures?
What’s the cumulative death rate in the first year of life?
Is the US more biased to first-week mortality than other developed nations? There’s more pressure in the US for mothers to carry unviable pregancies to term, sometimes legally forced to do so.
In South Korea there is a celebration on the infant’s 100th day, makes sense looking at this.