Infant mortality in Norway 1840-2020

The infant mortality rate in Norway, for children under the age of one year old, was over 140 deaths per thousand births in 1840. This means that for all babies born in 1840, roughly 14 percent did not survive past their first birthday. This rate fluctuated over the next sixty years, falling to just under one hundred deaths per thousand births at the turn of the twentieth century. From 1900 onwards, Norway's infant mortality rate dropped further and is today one of the lowest rates in the world. Roughly 99.8% of all babies lived past their first birthday in the period between 2015 and 2020.