infant mortality rate
In recent months, several reports have detailed increases in tuberculosis and infant mortality.
This group of women have an increased risk of premature birth, low birthweight and infant mortality, the study found.
Despite continuing poverty, infant mortality began to fall decisively for the first time in history.
The first distinctive feature that emerges from the graph is the low rate of infant mortality experienced by this small town.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Death and dying
all-cause mortality
antemortem
bereave
bite
bleed out
coroner
death toll
ghost
have one foot in the graveidiom
macabre
perish
raise
raise someone from the deadidiom
remains
roadkill
self-extinction
sepulchrally
snuff
strike someone down
toll

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