Infant Mortality and Life Expectancy

 

The numbers vary depending on who you ask and what year you ask about, but they all tell the same alarming story: the infant mortality rate and the average life expectency in the United States ranks somewhere in the bottom one fourth of all industrialized nations.

Doctor's Guide on infant mortaity and life expectancy

National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health on infant mortality

World Health Organization on life expectancy
 

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