infant mortality

English

Noun

infant mortality (usually uncountable, plural infant mortalities)

1. The occurrence of death of very young children under one year old.

Related terms

• infant mortality rate

Translations

death of children under one year old

• Catalan: mortalitat infantil f
• Danish: spædbarnsdødelighed (da)
• Dutch: zuigelingensterfte (nl) f
• Finnish: imeväiskuolleisuus (fi)
• French: mortalité infantile (fr) f
• German: Säuglingssterblichkeit (de) f
• Greek: βρεφική θνησιμότητα f (vrefikí thnisimótita)
• Hungarian: csecsemőhalandóság (hu)
• Irish: básmhaireacht naíonán f
• Italian: mortalità infantile f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: spedbarnsdødelighet m or f

• Polish: umieralność niemowląt f
• Romanian: mortalitate infantilă (ro) f
• Spanish: mortalidad infantil f
• Swedish: spädbarnsdödlighet c, spädbarnsmortalitet c

References

• “infant mortality”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.