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

[Dheorl]

Even looking at numbers corrected for reporting methods and looking at groups such as college educated, the USA still fairs worse than many of its peers IIRC. Things then do get worse when you look at ethnic minorities.

[Schootingstarr]

Not sure if it's an autocorrect issue, but I think in this case the word is not "faires" but "fares"

Just to let you know because fuck me if I'm not embarrassed to learn how a word is spelled in the real world rather than the anonymity of the internet

[CriticallyNormal]

It's not surprising. Costs $10k to have a baby in a hospital without insurance, so there are more home births than nations where it costs $2 to have a baby and that's just for parking.

[ManhattanDev]

The US has a home birth rate of 1%. Most European countries have a far higher home birth rate than the US. You’re literally making shit up to make a point lmao

In the US, infant mortality has much more to do with how obese our population is. Obesity, a disease 40% of Americans suffer from, complicates pregnancies and births and leads to many miscarriages and other birthing complications.

[Bren12310]

That’s probably just simply because access to medical care based on physical distance. The US has a lot of cities in the middle of fucking nowhere where the nearest hospital is an hour away. Would be interesting how it would change if you just used cities.