{"version":1,"asset_type":"statistical_series","data_type":"time_series","slug":"europe-infant-mortality-by-country","url":"https://apiardata.com/statistics/europe-infant-mortality-by-country","html_url":"https://apiardata.com/statistics/europe-infant-mortality-by-country/","title":"Infant Mortality in Europe by Country (2024)","description":"Infant mortality across 35 European countries in 2024, ranked highest to lowest: 9.0 deaths per 1,000 live births in Turkey down to 0.0 in Liechtenstein. 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Every one of these figures is far below the level any of these countries recorded a generation ago; the ranking measures the remaining distance to the European frontier, not a crisis."},{"question":"Why do very small countries show extreme infant mortality figures?","answer":"Because the denominator is small. A country with a few thousand births a year can swing several points on the rate from a handful of deaths, and can post a rate of zero in a year with none. Liechtenstein and other micro-states should be read as noisy rather than as best-in-class, and the year-on-year column for those rows moves far more than the underlying risk does."},{"question":"What explains the remaining differences between European countries?","answer":"Three things, in roughly this order: access to antenatal care and the share of births attended in properly equipped units; the prevalence of preterm and low-birthweight births, which tracks maternal smoking, poverty and maternal age; and registration practice, since countries differ in how they classify births at the edge of viability. The last of these makes small differences between well-performing countries hard to interpret and is one reason the top of the table is more meaningful than the middle."}]}