US-Bundesstaaten nach Kindersterblichkeitsrate.

Source: CDC

Sucks to be a baby in red states.

The rates are far higher than any other developed country. US doing worse than Bulgaria and Russia.

“The Usual Suspects” brought some company this time.

I assume this is partially linked to the African American population – in most developed countries people of black ethnic backgrounds have notably higher infant mortality and it’s not just a poverty issue either.

this should make some folks angry. i hope it does. is it just money?

This is undoubtedly related to black women and their babies having a higher mortality rate due to disparities in healthcare and wealth.

What’s going on in Maine? They’re definitely lagging compared to the rest of the northeast.

The dobbs decision originated in Mississippi

I was looking at this the other day, and the [data](https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/infant_mortality_rates/infant_mortality.htm)’s really spiky. Delaware, for example, spiked heavily in 2022 to get the 4th highest rate in the country (after Mississippi, South Dakota and Arkansas).

Overall though, there are some notable trends. 2021 looks to have been a particularly rough year. Alabama is pretty consistently going down despite the spike in 2021 that seems to have gone on a lot of places (3rd highest in 2019 to 14th in 2022). And Vermont just doesn’t seem to have babies (Only state that just has no rate multiple years).

State | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022
——|——|——|——|—–
AL | 7.71 | 6.99 | 7.56 | 6.69
AK | 4.99 | 5.07 | 7.37 | 6.62
AZ | 5.43 | 5.19 | 5.47 | 6.17
AR | 7.00 | 7.38 | 8.59 | 7.67
CA | 4.23 | 3.92 | 4.07 | 4.11
CO | 4.85 | 4.80 | 4.99 | 4.54
CT | 4.38 | 4.33 | 4.65 | 4.25
DE | 6.44 | 5.10 | 4.77 | 7.49
DC | —- | —- | —- | 5.45
FL | 6.10 | 5.80 | 5.90 | 5.98
GA | 7.02 | 6.28 | 6.25 | 7.08
HI | 5.12 | 4.88 | 4.67 | 5.79
ID | 4.31 | 5.06 | 5.13 | 5.27
IL | 5.67 | 5.50 | 5.62 | 5.59
IN | 6.54 | 6.75 | 6.75 | 7.16
IA | 5.02 | 4.43 | 3.99 | 5.20
KS | 5.42 | 6.60 | 5.30 | 5.81
KY | 4.90 | 6.43 | 6.15 | 5.77
LA | 7.97 | 7.59 | 7.24 | 7.37
ME | 5.43 | 6.33 | 5.00 | 6.37
MD | 5.84 | 5.73 | 5.99 | 6.03
MA | 3.73 | 3.94 | 3.23 | 3.32
MI | 6.38 | 6.80 | 6.22 | 6.42
MN | 4.53 | 4.13 | 4.83 | 4.50
MS | 8.71 | 8.12 | 9.39 | 9.11
MO | 6.14 | 5.89 | 5.85 | 6.77
MT | 4.78 | 5.00 | 4.90 | 4.65
NE | 4.93 | 5.68 | 5.49 | 5.83
NV | 5.67 | 4.64 | 5.76 | 4.49
NH | 3.21 | 4.41 | 3.96 | 3.48
NJ | 4.22 | 4.00 | 3.57 | 3.57
NM | 5.66 | 5.30 | 4.77 | 5.88
NY | 4.33 | 4.08 | 4.16 | 4.26
NC | 6.78 | 6.77 | 6.72 | 6.79
ND | 7.46 | 5.47 | 2.77 | 4.39
OH | 6.89 | 6.70 | 7.06 | 7.11
OK | 7.00 | 5.90 | 7.13 | 6.89
OR | 4.85 | 4.22 | 3.79 | 4.48
PA | 5.93 | 5.58 | 5.37 | 5.69
RI | 5.90 | 3.96 | 4.30 | 3.90
SC | 6.89 | 6.64 | 7.26 | 6.76
SD | 6.99 | 7.30 | 6.07 | 7.77
TN | 6.96 | 6.38 | 6.18 | 6.61
TX | 5.48 | 5.29 | 5.29 | 5.72
UT | 5.27 | 5.43 | 4.58 | 5.03
VT | —- | 0.00 | —- | 4.89
VA | 5.81 | 5.76 | 5.96 | 6.21
WA | 4.26 | 4.51 | 4.36 | 4.34
WV | 6.12 | 7.33 | 6.80 | 7.32
WI | 5.86 | 5.94 | 5.36 | 5.80
WY | 7.16 | 5.22 | 5.45 | 5.62

Mississippi, always the top from the bottom. Like Tupac said: “some things will never change”.

All the people acting like Russia is just a shit whole in its entirety. Using it as a standard of poor living is extremely ignorant.
Weird ass people

Mississippi 9.1 ???????

I mean, Lebanon has 6.7 and Russia ( I repeat: *Russia*!!!) has 6.5

“If they would stop reporting it, there wouldn’t be so many!!” – The incoming Presidential administration.

I wonder how many categories Mississippi leads the nation in?

That’s close to 1% (9.1-1000/0.91%) in Mississippi.

1 out of every 100 births.

Let that sink in.

In the richest country in the world in this day and age and availability to medicine/science.

maine is the only new england state with a shitty rating because our cps system is designed to keep kids in abusive situations and to take happy loved kids out of their homes.