DEFINITION
Total for all ages and sexes. Database compiled January 2004. Total of figures for:
- Other birth injuries
- Birth injury to liver
- Birth injury to spleen
- Sternomastoid injury due to birth injury
- Birth injury to eye
- Birth injury to Per capita figures expressed per 1 million population.
| Rank |
Countries
|
Amount
|
|
# 1
|
Iceland: |
3.36999 deaths per 1 million peo |
|
|
# 2
|
Kyrgyzstan: |
2.33191 deaths per 1 million peo |
|
|
# 3
|
Georgia: |
1.06906 deaths per 1 million peo |
|
|
# 4
|
Panama: |
0.955414 deaths per 1 million peo |
|
|
# 5
|
Dominican Republic: |
0.883978 deaths per 1 million peo |
|
|
# 6
|
Estonia: |
0.750188 deaths per 1 million peo |
|
|
# 7
|
Ecuador: |
0.598623 deaths per 1 million peo |
|
|
# 8
|
Croatia: |
0.44484 deaths per 1 million peo |
|
|
# 9
|
Latvia: |
0.436681 deaths per 1 million peo |
|
|
# 10
|
Brazil: |
0.333131 deaths per 1 million peo |
|
|
# 11
|
Korea, South: |
0.328941 deaths per 1 million peo |
|
|
# 12
|
Lithuania: |
0.278009 deaths per 1 million peo |
|
|
# 13
|
Puerto Rico: |
0.255689 deaths per 1 million peo |
|
|
# 14
|
Peru: |
0.250662 deaths per 1 million peo |
|
|
# 15
|
Costa Rica: |
0.249004 deaths per 1 million peo |
|
|
# 16
|
New Zealand: |
0.247831 deaths per 1 million peo |
|
|
# 17
|
South Africa: |
0.22551 deaths per 1 million peo |
|
|
# 18
|
Moldova: |
0.224467 deaths per 1 million peo |
|
|
# 19
|
Hungary: |
0.19986 deaths per 1 million peo |
|
|
# 20
|
Slovakia: |
0.184128 deaths per 1 million peo |
|
|
# 21
|
Denmark: |
0.184094 deaths per 1 million peo |
|
|
# 22
|
Nicaragua: |
0.182983 deaths per 1 million peo |
|
|
# 23
|
Romania: |
0.179131 deaths per 1 million peo |
|
|
# 24
|
Mexico: |
0.178903 deaths per 1 million peo |
|
|
# 25
|
Venezuela: |
0.157635 deaths per 1 million peo |
|
|
# 26
|
Paraguay: |
0.15753 deaths per 1 million peo |
|
|
# 27
|
Colombia: |
0.116404 deaths per 1 million peo |
|
|
# 28
|
Sweden: |
0.111086 deaths per 1 million peo |
|
|
# 29
|
Cuba: |
0.088129 deaths per 1 million peo |
|
|
# 30
|
United States: |
0.081154 deaths per 1 million peo |
|
|
# 31
|
Chile: |
0.0625743 deaths per 1 million peo |
|
|
# 32
|
Argentina: |
0.0505842 deaths per 1 million peo |
|
|
# 33
|
Australia: |
0.049776 deaths per 1 million peo |
|
|
# 34
|
Spain: |
0.0495774 deaths per 1 million peo |
|
|
# 35
|
Canada: |
0.0304832 deaths per 1 million peo |
|
|
# 36
|
Poland: |
0.025935 deaths per 1 million peo |
|
|
# 37
|
Egypt: |
0.0129022 deaths per 1 million peo |
|
|
# 38
|
Germany: |
0.0121314 deaths per 1 million peo |
|
|
# 39
|
Japan: |
0.00784825 deaths per 1 million peo |
|
| |
Weighted average: |
0.4 deaths per 1 million peo |
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DEFINITION: Total for all ages and sexes. Database compiled January 2004. Total of figures for:
- Other birth injuries
- Birth injury to liver
- Birth injury to spleen
- Sternomastoid injury due to birth injury
- Birth injury to eye
- Birth injury to Per capita figures expressed per 1 million population.