Considering China's abortion policies I would submit that they are the worst in terms of infant death rates.
The problem is with how infant deaths are counted.
Everywhere except the US count as infant deaths only those a month old or older who die.
Those who die earlier are not counted.
I’d bet that a huge contributor to this stat is under-reporting by other nations.
What the NYT fails to mention either on purpose or ignorance is the way countries report infant deaths vary greatly from the USA.
From 2002:
“Recently released statistics on the infant mortality rate in the Western hemisphere yielded an odd conclusions — Cuba’s infant mortality rate, 16 6.0 per 1,000, is now lower than the U.S. infant mortality rate, at 7.2 per 1,000. Given Cuba’s poverty level, its 6.0 rate is very impressive, but is it accurate to say that Cuba now has an infant mortality rate lower than the United States? No.....
Why? Because the United States also easily has the most intensive system of
emergency intervention to keep low birth weight and premature infants alive
in the world. The United States is, for example, one of only a handful countries that keeps detailed statistics on early fetal mortality — the survival rate of infants who are born as early as the 20th week of gestation.
How does this skew the statistics? Because in the United States if an infant is born weighing only 400 grams and not breathing, a doctor will likely spend lot of time and money trying to revive that infant. If the infant does not survive — and the mortality rate for such infants is in excess of 50 percent — that sequence of events will be recorded as a live birth and then a death.
In many countries, however, (including many European countries) such severe medical intervention would not be attempted and, moreover, regardless of whether or not it was, this would be recorded as a fetal death rather than a live birth. That unfortunate infant would never show up in infant mortality statistics.”
http://www.overpopulation.com/articles/2002/cuba-vs-the-united-states-on-infant-mortality/
This reporter is a dunce.
How hard is it to connect the dots that because we have more neocare beds our infant mortality will be higher.
How many countries spend several $100,000 to try and save an extreme premmie as a routine practice ?
Is this about the deaths of unwanted children that made it past Planned Parenthood or a support article suggesting that with fewer “unplanned births” there would be a better survival rate? Could there be a correlation between the 70% of black children being born out of wedlock and the high death rate?
Teaching young people that the government will raise your children and subsidize you for having them seems not to be working out as planned. But, they were so caring when they passed the legislation.
Perhaps, a little more on parenting and personal responsibility, with a lot less on activism and a hell of a lot less on me, me, me would change these statistics.
Are abortions included? Procedurally or otherwise.
Considering China's abortion policies I would submit that they are the worst in terms of infant death rates.
US Among Worst in World for Infant Death
National Prematurity Awareness Week
ABC News chose to print a county map of Tennessee with the story. The Associated Press gave it the original title. The NY Times and ABC News declined to change the title. And the drive by media wonders why it's losing its credibility?
Women and children hit hardest.