—from Epidemiological
Bulletin , Vol. 25 No. 2, June 2004—
Infant mortality situation in the Americas, 1990 - 2002: monitoring progress towards MDG’s
Among the Millennium Development Goals, the
infant mortality rate is an indicator of child mortality reduction between
1990 and 2015. It is one of the indicators that routinely evaluates. An analysis
of information on this indicator shows that the rate per 1,000 live births
ranges between 5.3 for Canada and 63.2 for Haiti. When progress of the indicator
towards its 2015 target is reviewed at the country level, 21 of 37 of them
have advanced less than 50% of the goal between 1990 and 2002 (which is about
half of the observation period). Progress has varied from 38.1% in Belize to
98.2 in Guadeloupe, suggesting that some countries should make additional efforts
to reach the goal.
Note: Argentina (ARG), The Bahamas (BAH), Barbados (BAR), Belize (BLZ), Bolivia
(BOL), Brazil (BRA), Canada (CAN), Chile (CHI), Colombia (COL), Costa Rica
(COR), Cuba (CUB), Dominican Republic (DOR), Ecuador (ECU), El Salvador (ELS),
French Guayana (FRG), Guadeloupe (GUA), Guatemala (GUT), Guyana (GUY), Haiti
(HAI), Honduras (HON), Jamaica (JAM), Martinique (MAR), Mexico (MEX), Netherlands
Antilles (NEA), Nicaragua (NIC), Panama (PAN), Paraguay (PAR), Peru (PER),
Puerto Rico (PUR), Saint Lucia (SAL), Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (SAV),
Suriname (SUR), Trinidad and Tobago (TRT), Uruguay (URU), United States of
America (USA), Venezuela (VEN), Virgin Islands US (VUS)
Source: Core Health Data System - table generator http://www.paho.org/English/SHA/coredata/tabulator/newtabulator.htm
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Epidemiological
Bulletin , Vol. 25 No. 2, June 2004