Birth Defects or Congenital Anomalies

(Data are for the U.S.)

 

Mortality

• Number of deaths for all ages: 9,673
• Number of infant deaths: 5,107
• Infant deaths per 100,000 live births:  127.7
• Cause of infant death rank: 1

Source: Deaths: Final Data for 2010, tables 10, 21 [PDF - 3.1 MB]

 

More data

• Births: Final Data for 2010 [PDF - 1.3 MB]
• Infant Mortality Statistics from the 2007 Period Linked Birth/Infant Death Data Set [PDF - 1.4 MB]
• Search Tables for Birth Defects in Health Data Interactive
• Trends in Spina Bifida and Anencephalus in the United States, 1991-2006