Infant Mortality Rates*
by Selected Racial/Ethnic Populations
United States, 2002 

QuickStats from the National Center for Health Statistics
Morbidity and Mortality Report (MMWR) v.54, n.5, 11feb2005

* Per 1,000 live births.
† Can include persons of Hispanic and non-Hispanic origin.
§ Persons of Hispanic origin might be of any race.

In 2002, the infant mortality rate was highest for infants of non-Hispanic black mothers. Infants of Hawaiian, American Indian, and Puerto Rican mothers also had high rates. The lowest rates were observed for infants of Cuban and Chinese mothers. Additional birth data are available at http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/births.htm

SOURCE: Mathews TJ, Menacker F, MacDorman MF. Infant mortality statistics from the 2002 period linked birth/infant death data set. Available at http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr53/nvsr53_10.pdf.