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Infant Mortality Rate or the IMR indicated on this
map talks about the total deaths of infants below the age of one per 1,000 live births in a particular year. Figures shown on the map are estimates of year 2009.
Infant mortality rate map clearly indicates that close to 61% of the world has an IMR of less than 25 deaths per 1,000 live births. Singapore, Japan, France, Portugal, Australia, UK, USA, Cuba, Russia, Greenland, Sri Lanka and Malaysia are just few countries belonging to this group.
Bhutan, Nepal, South Africa, Indonesia, Turkey and Syria are few of the 17% of countries with an IMR between 25 to 50 deaths. Tanzania, Guinea, Bangladesh, Kenya and North Korea in the year 2008 had an IMR ranging in-between 50 deaths to 75 deaths.
Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Sudan, Malawi and Nigeria belong to the group of countries with an infant mortality rate of more that 75 and less than 100.
9 countries in the world including Zambia, Mali, Somalia, Afghanistan, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Angola have an infant mortality rate of more that 100 death of infants below the age of one per 1,000 live births. Angola has world's highest IMR that of 180.21 deaths/1,000 live births.
