Infant Mortality in the United States: Provisional Data From the 2023 Period Linked Birth/Infant Death File

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/vsrr/vsrr037.pdf After rising between 2021 and 2022, infant mortality has plateaued, new national data from the CDC show. Looking past the overall figures, differences among racial and ethnic groups also didn’t budge significantly, as this chart shows. Geography looks different, too. State by state, the rate of deaths per 1,000 live births ranged from 3.32 in Massachusetts to 9.11 in Mississippi. Mortality rates declined in New Mexico (5.88) and West Virginia (7.32) but increased in Nevada (4.49) and Washington (4.34).