Infant mortality

Per 1 000 live births

The ratio of the number of deaths of children under one year of age during the year to the number of live births in that year. The value is expressed per 1 000 live births.

Additional information on Eurostat web page

	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011
EU (27 countries)	5.9	5.7	5.4	5.3	5.1	4.9	4.6	4.5	4.3	4.2	4.1	..
Euro area (17 countries)	4.7	4.6	4.3	4.2	4.1	3.9	3.8	3.7	3.5	3.6	3.5	..
Euro area (16 countries)	4.7	4.5	4.3	4.2	4.1	3.9	3.8	3.7	3.5	3.6	3.5	..
Belgium	4.8	4.6	4.5	4.1	3.9	3.7	4.0	3.9	3.7	3.5	3.6	3.3 ^(p)
Bulgaria	13.3	14.4	13.3	12.3	11.6	10.4	9.7	9.2	8.6	9.0	9.4	8.5
Czech Republic	4.1	4.0	4.1	3.9	3.7	3.4	3.3	3.1	2.8	2.9	2.7	2.7
Denmark	5.3	4.9	4.4	4.4	4.4	4.4	3.5	4.0	4.0	3.1	3.4	3.5
Germany	4.4	4.3	4.2	4.2	4.1	3.9	3.8	3.9	3.5	3.5	3.4	3.6 ^(p)
Estonia	8.4	8.8	5.7	7.0	6.4	5.4	4.4	5.0	5.0	3.6	3.3	2.5
Ireland	6.2	5.7	5.1	5.1	4.8	4.0	3.6	3.1	3.8	3.2	3.8	3.5
Greece	5.9	5.1	5.1	4.0	4.1	3.8	3.7	3.5	2.7	3.1	3.8	3.7 ^(p)
Spain	4.4	4.0	4.1	3.9	3.9	3.7	3.5	3.4	3.3	3.2	3.2	3.2 ^(p)
France	4.5	4.6	4.2	4.2	4.0	3.8	3.8	3.8	3.8	3.9	3.6	..
Italy	4.3	4.4	4.1	3.9	3.9	3.8	3.6	3.5	3.3	3.4	3.4	3.2
Cyprus	5.6	4.9	4.7	4.1	3.5	4.6	3.1	3.7	3.5	3.3	3.2	3.1
Latvia	10.4	11.0	9.8	9.4	9.4	7.8	7.6	8.7	6.7	7.8	5.7	6.6
Lithuania	8.6	7.9	7.9	6.7	7.9	6.8	6.8	5.9	4.9	4.9	4.3	4.2
Luxembourg	5.1	5.9	5.1	4.9	3.9	2.6	2.5	1.8	1.8	2.5	3.4	4.3
Hungary	9.2	8.1	7.2	7.3	6.6	6.2	5.7	5.9	5.6	5.1	5.3	4.9 ^(p)
Malta	5.2	3.8	5.4	5.7	5.7	5.4	3.6	6.5	8.2	5.3	5.5	6.1
Netherlands	5.1	5.4	5.0	4.8	4.4	4.9	4.4	4.1	3.8	3.8	3.8	3.6
Austria	4.8	4.8	4.1	4.5	4.5	4.2	3.6	3.7	3.7	3.8	3.9	3.6
Poland	8.1	7.7	7.5	7.0	6.8	6.4	6.0	6.0	5.6	5.6	5.0	4.7
Portugal	5.5	5.0	5.0	4.1	3.8	3.5	3.3	3.4	3.3	3.6	2.5	3.1
Romania	18.6	18.4	17.3	16.7	16.8	15.0	13.9	12.0	11.0	10.1	9.8	9.4
Slovenia	4.9	4.2	3.8	4.0	3.7	4.1	3.4	2.8	2.4	2.4	2.5	2.9 ^(p)
Slovakia	8.6	6.2	7.6	7.9	6.8	7.2	6.6	6.1	5.9	5.7	5.7	4.9
Finland	3.8	3.2	3.0	3.1	3.3	3.0	2.8	2.7	2.6	2.6	2.3	2.4
Sweden	3.4	3.7	3.3	3.1	3.1	2.4	2.8	2.5	2.5	2.5	2.5	2.1
United Kingdom	5.6	5.5	5.2	5.3	5.0	5.1	4.9	4.7	4.6	4.7	4.3	..
Iceland	3.0	2.7	2.2	2.4	2.8	2.3	1.4	2.0	2.5	1.8	2.2	0.9
Liechtenstein	9.5	0.0	2.5	2.9	2.7	2.6	5.5	0.0	0.0	2.5	3.0	2.5 ^(p)
Norway	3.8	3.9	3.5	3.3	3.2	3.1	3.2	3.1	2.7	3.1	2.8	2.4
Switzerland	4.9	5.0	4.5	4.3	4.2	4.2	4.4	3.9	4.0	4.3	3.8	3.8 ^(p)
Montenegro	11.1	14.6	10.8	11.0	7.8	8.4	11.0	7.4	7.5	5.7	..	..
Croatia	7.4	7.7	7.0	6.3	6.1	5.7	5.2	5.6	4.5	5.3	4.4	4.7
Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, the	11.8	11.9	10.2	11.3	13.2	12.8	11.5	10.3	9.7	11.7	7.6	7.6 ^(p)
Turkey	28.9	27.8	26.7	25.6	24.6	23.6	22.6	16.8	16.1	13.8	13.6	12.6 ^(p)

(..) - not available
(p) - provisional

Source: Eurostat