These are statistical measures that represent the number of deaths of infants and children under the age of five per 1000 live births in a given year.
Infant Mortality Rate: This is specifically the number of deaths of infants under one year old per 1,000 live births in a given year.
Child Mortality Rate: This refers to the death rate for children aged between one and five years old, calculated per 1,000 children in this age group.
Mortality Rate: This is a measure of the number of deaths in general within a population, scaled to the size of that population, per unit time.
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