What is the Indigenous infant mortality rate?
The infant mortality rate is the number of deaths of children under one year of age in a calendar year per 1,000 live births in that year. In 2003-2005, the infant mortality rate for Indigenous babies was highest in the NT (15.6 infant deaths per 1,000 births) and WA (12.8 per 1,000) and lowest in SA (7.7 per 1,000 births) (for jurisdictions with reasonable information about Indigenous deaths) [1]. (The rate for the total Australian population was around 5.0 infant deaths per 1,000 births.) Return to top What do we know about Indigenous maternal mortality? In 2000-2002 (the most recent period for which detailed data are available) 13 (16.9%) of the 77 maternal deaths where Indigenous status was known were of Indigenous women (Indigenous status was not reported in 11% of the deaths) [8]. Reflecting the higher rate of confinements among Indigenous women, the maternal mortality ratio for Indigenous women in 2000-2002 was 49.9 per 100,000 confinements,almost five times higher than the rati
The infant mortality rate is the number of deaths of children under one year of age in a calendar year per 1,000 live births in that year. In 2005-2007, the highest Indigenous infant mortality rate was in the NT (15.7 infant deaths per 1,000 births) and the lowest in NSW and SA (8.9 in each state) [1] (The rate of infant deaths per 1,000 births for the total Australian population was around 4.5).
