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The most powerful/wealthiest nation on the planet has relatively high infant mortality...
The 2021 CIA's World Factbook lists the USA as ranking 54th lowest -- 53 countries had fewer infant deaths. The number sounds low, 5.17 infant deaths per 1,000 live births, but still, given how we're always bragging about how we're the best at everything. Cuba, Belarus and Serbia had fewer infants die between birth and one year. Slovenia had the fewest deaths with 1.52 per 1,000. Maybe we need to improve care of the babies that are born. It's painful to lose a baby before it's born, but to have it die after loving it for a year is a horror.
https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/field/infant-mortality-rate/country-comparison
