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What is the infant mortality rate?

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Values among 41 countries

Indicator metadata and score calculation

Definition:	Infant mortality rate per 1,000 live births
Year:	2020
Unit:	0/00
Direction:	Low values translate into high scores
Source 1:	World Bank, World Development Indicators
Data for:	AUS, AUT, BEL, BGR, CAN, CHL, HRV, CYP, CZE, DNK, EST, FIN, FRA, DEU, GRC, HUN, ISL, IRL, ISR, ITA, JPN, KOR, LVA, LTU, LUX, MLT, MEX, NLD, NZL, NOR, POL, PRT, ROU, SVK, SVN, ESP, SWE, CHE, TUR, GBR, USA
Annotation:	World Bank: Dataset: World Development Indicators, mortality rate, infant (per 1,000 live births)[SP.DYN.IMRT.IN] URL: https://databank.worldbank.o… extracted June 10th, 2022

Calculation:	Long-term data series were used to set appropriate minimum and maximum values.
Minimum:	0
Maximum:	10.3
/	Below/Above IQR boundary value. See FAQ for further information.
Distance:	Distance=(value for calculation-minimum)/(maximum-minimum)
Score:	Score=10-relative distance*9

Top group

Score

Infant Mortality

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Upper middle group

Iceland

8.7

1.50

Estonia

8.5

1.70

Japan

8.4

1.80

Norway

8.4

1.80

Slovenia

8.4

1.80

Finland

8.3

1.90

Sweden

8.2

2.10

Cyprus

8.0

2.30

Czechia

8.0

2.30

Luxembourg

8.0

2.30

Italy

7.8

2.50

Ireland

7.7

2.60

South Korea

7.7

2.60

Lithuania

7.6

2.70

Portugal

7.6

2.70

Spain

7.6

2.70

Israel

7.5

2.90

Austria

7.4

3.00

Australia

7.3

3.10

Denmark

7.3

3.10

Germany

7.3

3.10

Belgium

7.0

3.40

France

7.0

3.40

Hungary

7.0

3.40

Latvia

7.0

3.40

Switzerland

6.9

3.50

Greece

6.9

3.60

Netherlands

6.9

3.60

6.9

3.60

Poland

6.8

3.70

Croatia

6.6

3.90

New Zealand

6.6

3.90

Canada

6.2

4.40

Lower middle group

Slovakia

5.9

4.70

Bulgaria

5.5

5.10

USA

5.3

5.40

Malta

5.1

5.60

Romania

5.1

5.60

Chile

4.9

5.80

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Bottom group

Turkey

2.9

8.10

Mexico

1.0

11.80