English-Dutch translations for infant mortality rate

• kindersterfte
  De kindersterfte is wereldwijd afgenomen van 64 per 1000 in 1980 naar 56 per 1000 in de jaren negentig. The infant mortality rate fell worldwide from 64 per 1 000 in 1980 to 56 per 1 000 in the nineties.
  Er zijn grote vorderingen gemaakt bij het bestrijden van malaria en tuberculose, en de kindersterfte is scherp gedaald. Great steps have been made in combating malaria and tuberculosis, and the infant mortality rate is falling dramatically.
  In veel landen, met name ontwikkelingslanden, is de drinkwatervoorziening niet gegarandeerd, hetgeen zeer vaak de oorzaak is van allerlei ziekten en de hoge kindersterfte in derdewereldlanden.Many countries, particularly developing countries, have no safe water supply. Very often this is the cause of a variety of diseases and of the high infant mortality rate in third world countries.

Definition of infant mortality rate

• The total number of deaths in a year among infants under one year of age for every 1,000 live births in a society

Related words

• infant
• infantry
• infantryman
• infantile
• infanticide
• infantilism
• infantilize
• infantophilia
• infante
• infanta