Life stage: Pre-conception and pregnancy - GOV.UK

Key statistics In 2011, the number of infants dying before their first birthday (i.e. the infant mortality rate) in England and Wales was 4.2 per thousand live births: an all-time low. For comparison, the rate was 11.1 per thousand in 1981.1 Immaturity due to preterm birth remains the commonest cause of death in the first year.

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