Saturday, May 28, 2005

Consistently Behind

How come we claim the best health care in the world, yet the stats on infant mortality have been consistently lousy? Here's another set:

As of 2004, according to the International Database of the U.S. Census Bureau, there were 6.6 deaths of infants per thousand live births in the U.S. Below are the associated infant mortality figures for a selection of other developed countries:
Australia: 4.8
Austria: 4.7
Canada: 4.8
Denmark: 4.6
Finland: 3.6
France: 4.3
Germany: 4.2
Greece: 5.6
Ireland: 5.5
Italy: 6.1
Japan: 3.3
New Zealand: 6.0
Norway: 3.7
Portugal: 5.1
Spain: 4.5
Sweden: 2.8
Switzerland: 4.4
United Kingdom: 5.2

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

YA! BUT! We got a bad ass in the WH & we got them terrists on the run!