Infant mortality in Iceland 1955-2020

The infant mortality rate in Iceland, for children under the age of one year old, was 22 deaths per thousand births in 1950. This means that for all babies born between 1950 and 1955, over two percent percent did not survive past their first birthday. This rate decreased gradually over the next seventy years. Today, Iceland has the lowest infant mortality rate in the world, where approximately 99.9% of all babies born in the country make it past their first birthday.