Definitions and Sources of Infant Mortality Statistics
Argentina
- SIDS rates include birth to 1 year
- Source: Office of Health Statistics and Information, Ministry of Health
Australia
- SIDS rates include birth to 1 year
- Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics
Austria
- SIDS rates include birth to 1 year
Belgium
- SIDS rates include birth to 1 year
Canada
- SIDS rates include 1 week to 1 year
- Sources: Statistics Canada, and Canadian WHO Statistical Information Services
England/Wales
- SIDS rates include 1 week to 1 year
- Source: Office for National Statistics
France
- SIDS rates include birth to 1 year
Germany
- SIDS rates include 1 week to 1 year
- Source: Federal Office of Statistics
Ireland
- SIDS rates include birth to 1 year
- Source: Irish National Sudden Infant Death Register
Israel
- Mortality rates by unspecified causes include birth to 1 year
Japan
- SIDS rates include birth to 1 year
- Sources: Statistics and Information Department, Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare, Mother’s & Children’s Health Organization, Maternal and Child Health Statistics of Japan, March 29, 2006
Netherlands
- SIDS rates include birth to 1 year
- Source: Dutch Central Bureau of Statistics
New Zealand
- SIDS rates include birth to 1 year
- Source: New Zealand Health Information Service
Norway
- SIDS rates include birth to 1 year
- Source: Statistics Norway
Scotland
- SIDS rates include 1 week to 1 year
- Source: General Registrar’s Report
Sweden
- SIDS rates include birth to 1 year
- Sources: National Board of Health and Welfare, Sweden, Wennergren G, Alm B, Oyen N, et al. The decline in the incidence of SIDS in Scandinavia and its relation to risk-intervention campaigns. Acta Paediatr. 1997;86 (9):963-968.
USA
- SIDS rates include birth to 1 year
- Sources: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, National Vital Statistics Reports, Vol. 56, No. 10. Table 31, National Vital Statistics Reports, Vol. 55, No. 19, Table 30