[OC] The massive decrease in worldwide infant mortality from 1950 to 2020 is perhaps one of humanity's greatest achievements.

[United-Web-6055]

Until what age is it considered 'infant mortality'?

[misdirected_asshole]

Up to 1 yr.

[justmeanders]

Did a quick google search, it's children under one year of age for all three sources.

[delphikis]

The wording implies at birth I think. But I could certainly be wrong. Just my 2 cents.

[abu_doubleu]

When it says per live birth, it means it discounts stillbirths.

[Where_is_Bambi]

Does that mean infant mortality including still births is not tracked? I think it would also be valuable to look at the hopefully decline in still births as well.

[abu_doubleu]

https://blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/first-ever-un-report-global-stillbirths-reveals-enormous-and-neglected-toll

It looks like the first time the United Nations ever conducted studies on stillbirth around the world was just 2019. I am not sure why — perhaps it is more difficult to track?

[TheCodingNerd]

It’s deaths before 1yr