29.2 per 1,000 live births
deaths under age 1 per 1,000 live births
No current source auditAll sources · source collection
National Vital Statistics System: Life Tables and Infant Mortality
National Center for Health Statistics (CDC) · 2024
Source notes & limitations
NCHS publishes annual life tables via the National Vital Statistics Reports series. Life expectancy at birth (all races): 1960: 69.7 total / 66.6M / 73.1F; 1970: 70.8 / 67.1M / 74.8F; 1980: 73.7 / 70.0M / 77.5F; 1990: 75.4 / 71.8M / 78.8F; 2000: 77.0 / 74.3M / 79.7F; 2010: 78.7 / 76.2M / 81.0F; 2023: 78.4 / 75.8M / 81.1F (Data Brief No. 521). 2024 provisional: 79.0 / 76.5M / 81.4F. Infant mortality rates (all races, per 1,000 live births) from Health, United States, 2016, Table 11: 1950: 29.2; 1960: 26.0; 1970: 20.0; 1980: 12.6; 1990: 9.2; 2000: 6.9; 2010: 6.1; 2015: 5.9. URL for infant mortality table: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/2016/011.pdf
Where this source appears
15 records across 8 decades and countries. Documented gaps are included; a source cited for a gap does not establish a value.
0 of 15 records have a current source audit. A transcription check reads a declared numeric field from a pinned local source file; a calculation replay reads its operands and applies the declared method and rounding rule. A source audit does not independently validate the source or every claim in a record. The date is the last successful local audit; the build checks that its bindings still match.
US · 1950s
US · 1960s
66.6 male, 73.1 female (69.7 total, all races)
years at birth
No current source audit26.0 per 1,000 live births
deaths under age 1 per 1,000 live births
No current source auditUS · 1970s
67.1 male, 74.8 female (70.8 total, all races)
years
No current source audit20.0 per 1,000 live births
deaths under age 1 per 1,000 live births
No current source auditUS · 1980s
70.0 male, 77.5 female (73.7 total, all races)
years
No current source audit12.6 per 1,000 live births
deaths under age 1 per 1,000 live births
No current source auditUS · 1990s
71.8 male, 78.8 female (75.4 total, all races)
years
No current source audit9.2 per 1,000 live births
deaths under age 1 per 1,000 live births
No current source auditUS · 2000s
74.3 male, 79.7 female (77.0 total, all races)
years
No current source audit6.9 per 1,000 live births
deaths under age 1 per 1,000 live births
No current source auditUS · 2010s
76.2 male, 81.0 female (78.7 total, all races)
years
No current source audit6.1 per 1,000 live births
deaths under age 1 per 1,000 live births
No current source auditUS · 2020s
76.5 male, 81.4 female (79.0 total)
years
No current source audit5.525 per 1,000 live births (552.5 per 100,000)
deaths before age 1 per 1,000 live births
No current source audit