Infant mortality in Denmark 1835-2020

The infant mortality rate in Denmark, for children under the age of one year old, was 152 deaths per thousand births in 1835. Over fifteen percent of babies born that year did not survive past their first birthday. For the remainder of the nineteenth century, this rate remained between 130 and 150 deaths per thousand births, however a downward trend began in 1895. From this point onwards, infant mortality decreased dramatically, (although there was a slight increase in the late 1920s) and it is as low as three deaths per thousand births nowadays.