“According to provisional CDC data, the US infant mortality rate fell to an all-time low in 2025, reaching fewer than 5.4 infant deaths per 1,000 live births,” reports The Doomslayer.
STAT News adds:
Infant mortality in the U.S. dropped to a new all-time low in 2025, according to preliminary government data.
There were slightly fewer than 5.4 infant deaths per 1,000 live births in 2025, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
While that appears to be a small decline from about 5.5 in 2024 and 5.6 in the two years preceding, researchers say it is statistically meaningful and translates to hundreds of fewer infant deaths per year.
Some other nations have lower official infant mortality rates, although some of those nations actually have higher infant mortality rates, because they treat as stillbirths what the U.S. would classify as infant deaths. “The U.S. infant mortality rate (IMR) often captures extremely premature, low-birth-weight babies that many other nations legally classify as stillbirths (fetal deaths).”
Infant mortality and maternal mortality are also falling in the world’s ninth largest country, which used to be very poor, such as when 42% of its people died in a famine caused by Soviet communist dictator Joseph Stalin.
Worldwide, infant mortality has never been lower: “4.9 million children under the age of 5 died in 2024, down from 13 million in 1990.”
“The number of children living in extreme poverty fell to a record low of 412 million in 2024, down from 507 million a decade earlier,” reports The Doomslayer. The percentage of children living in poverty has never been lower in human history.
