Meanings
nouninfant mortality rate (plural infant mortality rates)
plural infant mortality rates
- geographyThe total number of deaths in a year among infants under one year of age for every 1,000 live births in a society.
Synonyms & antonyms
Also see
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Chinese Mandarin 嬰兒死亡率 /婴儿死亡率
- 嬰兒死亡率 /婴儿死亡率 (yīng'ér sǐwánglǜ)number of deaths among infants
Finnish imeväiskuolleisuus
- imeväiskuolleisuusnumber of deaths among infants
Hindi शिशु मृत्यु दर
- शिशु मृत्यु दर (śiśu mŕtyu dar)number of deaths among infants
Indonesian angka kematian bayi
- angka kematian bayinumber of deaths among infants
Malay kadar kematian bayi, kadar mortaliti bayi
- kadar kematian bayinumber of deaths among infants
- kadar mortaliti bayinumber of deaths among infants
- kadar kemortalan bayinumber of deaths among infants
Russian коэффицие́нт де́тской сме́ртности, коэффицие́нт младе́нческой сме́ртности
- коэффицие́нт де́тской сме́ртности (koefficijént détskoj smértnosti)number of deaths among infants
- коэффицие́нт младе́нческой сме́ртности (koefficijént mladénčeskoj smértnosti)number of deaths among infants
Cite this entry
APA
infant mortality rate. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/infant%20mortality%20rate
MLA
“infant mortality rate.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/infant%20mortality%20rate. Accessed November 5, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “infant mortality rate,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/infant%20mortality%20rate.
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