I think part of it is that we are getting better at keeping these folks alive. Maybe they used to die at a very young age before, but the epi pen and other things keep them alive longer.
Sort of like the so-called high infant mortality rate in the US. It is only because we are better at having them survive until childbirth. In other countries with a better rate those babies are "born dead" instead of kept alive for awhile while trying to save them.
Sort of like the so-called high infant mortality rate in the US. It is only because we are better at having them survive until childbirth. In other countries with a better rate those babies are "born dead" instead of kept alive for awhile while trying to save them. In most of the world, if the child dies within the first few days, it is not recorded as an infant death. For statistical purposes, it is the same as if the child was stillborn.