Child mortality in US is about 2 times higher than OECD average

Just a moment...

For infants (<1 year old)

Between 2007 to 2022, infants were 1.78 (95% CI, 1.78-1.79) times more likely to die in the US than in the OECD18.

The 2 causes of death with the largest net difference between the US and OECD18 were prematurity (RR, 2.22 [95% CI, 2.20-2.24]) and sudden unexpected infant death (RR, 2.39 [95% CI, 2.35-2.43]).

For kids aged 1 to 19 years old

Between 2007 to 2022, 1- to 19-year olds were 1.80 (95% CI, 1.80-1.80) times more likely to die in the US than in the OECD18.

The 2 causes of death with the largest net difference between the US and OECD18 were firearm-related incidents (RR, 15.34 [95% CI, 14.89-15.80]) and motor vehicle crashes (RR, 2.45 [95% CI, 2.42-2.48]).

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- Lack of access to healthcare / nutrition
  If you broke these stats out by racial group I am sure the numbers would be shocking. There's probably parts of the south where black infant mortality rivals Syria or something
  Edit:
  
  Low birth weight is the biggest driver and suggests nutrition, maternal complications tie to lack of healthcare, congenital malformations suggest environmental racism is also a factor at play here
  Edit2: looking around a bit I wasn't too far off, the worst published counties in Alabama and Mississippi are at 15-16 which is just a hair shy of Syria's 16.5
  And those are the published stats, I am sure the worst counties don't publish bc they don't even have the infrastructure for collecting
  
  And if you're curious where the white rate of 4.5 sits....
  Right behind Cuba
  
  Links for those two articles:
  https://minorityhealth.hhs.gov/infant-health-and-mortality-and-blackafrican-americans
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_infant_and_under-five_mortality_rates
  
  death to america
the OECD member country map
- Is light blue not "in" but "aligned"?
  Or in process of joining I guess bc Thailand is light blue
  
  Argentina ready to increase the child mortality rate even further to follow their colonial master.
  
  yeah they're applicants
The maternal mortality rate in the U.S. is also double the OECD average and for Black women the rate more than doubles again. (50.3 deaths for every 100,000 live births, comparable to the overall rate in Kyrgyzstan).
In 2020 the U.S. maternal mortality rate was higher than Palestine's. (21.1 vs 20.4.) The OECD average was 10.9.
firearm-related incidents (RR, 15.34 [95% CI, 14.89-15.80]) and motor vehicle crashes

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