Infant mortality in Iceland 1955-2020

The infant mortality rate in Iceland, for children under the age of one year old, was 22 deaths per thousand births in 1950. This means that for all babies born between 1950 and 1955, over two percent percent did not survive past their first birthday. This rate decreased gradually over the next seventy years. Today, Iceland has the lowest infant mortality rate in the world, where approximately 99.9% of all babies born in the country make it past their first birthday.

冰岛新生儿死亡率，针对不满一周岁的婴儿，在1950年时为每千名出生婴儿中22人死亡。这意味着在1950年至1955年间出生的所有婴儿中，超过两百分之一的婴儿未能度过其第一个生日。该比率在随后的七十年中逐渐下降。如今，冰岛拥有全球最低的新生儿死亡率，在该国出生的所有婴儿中，约有99.9%能够度过其第一个生日。