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Article: INFANT MORTALITY RATE DROPS TO LOWEST IN STATE'S HISTORY IN 2006, WHILE RECORD NUMBER OF BABIES ARE BORN
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- September 5, 2007
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services issued the following news release:
North Carolina's 2006 infant mortality rate was 8.1 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2006, the lowest in the state's history and an 8 percent drop from 8.8 in 2004 and 2005. At the same time, there was a record number of births in the state - 127,646 babies were born to North Carolina residents in 2006, nearly 4 percent more than in 2005.
The state's minority infant mortality rate, which has shown declines for four of the past five years, dropped to an all-time low of 13.6 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2006. The white infant mortality rate declined in 2006 for the first time in four years to 6.0; ...