Infant Health
Data are for the U.S.
Live births
- Number of births: 3,667,758
- Percent of births with low birthweight (less than 2500 grams): 8.60%
- Percent of births that are preterm (less than 37 weeks gestation): 10.38%
Source: Births: Final Data for 2022, tables 1 and 13 [PDF – 1 MB]
Mortality
- Number of infant deaths: 20,553
- Deaths per 100,000 live births: 560.4
- Leading causes of infant deaths
- Congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities
- Disorders related to short gestation and low birthweight: not elsewhere classified
- Sudden infant death syndrome
Source: Mortality in the United States, 2022, data table for figure 5
More data
- America’s Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being
- Trends in Infant Health from Health, United States
- Infant Mortality in the United States, 2021: Data From the Period Linked Birth/Infant Death File [PDF – 634 KB]
- Perinatal Mortality in the United States, 2020-2021
- Fetal Mortality in the United States: Final 2020–2021 and 2021–Provisional 2022
- Infant Mortality by Selected Maternal Characteristics and Race and Hispanic Origin in the United States, 2019–2021 [PDF – 336 KB]
- Infant Mortality Among Non-Hispanic Asian Subgroups in the United States, 2018-2020
- Fetal Mortality in the United States: Trends From 2014 Through 2019 and Changes Between 2018-2019 and 2019-2020
- Homicides Among Infants in the United States, 2017–2020 [PDF – 343 KB]
- National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey: 2021 Emergency Department Summary Tables [PDF – 830 KB]
- National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey: 2019 National Summary Tables [PDF – 865 KB]
- Infant Mortality by Maternal Prepregnancy Body Mass Index: United States, 2017-2018 [PDF – 810 KB]