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    [OC] Infant Mortality Rates Across Europe (1850 - 2024)
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    [OC] Infant Mortality Rates Across Europe (1850 – 2024)


    Source: HMD. Human Mortality Database. Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (Germany), University of California, Berkeley (USA), and French Institute for Demographic Studies (France). Available at www.mortality.org (data downloaded on Feb 16, 2026).

    Tools: Kasipa / https://kasipa.com/graph/G1xVdKvc

    Posted by dcastm

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    9 Comments

    4. Ares6 on

      There’s so many dead babies, that if you were to put all the deaths humans have accumulated, babies will likely be the clear majority. And no people weren’t desensitized to their children dying, which makes the situation sad for how common it was. 

    5. othybear on

      The legend isn’t super helpful since you reuse colors. What are the high and low countries? I’m particularly interested to see what the two outside yellows are.

      Maybe even grouping into different areas, like western/eastern/Northern Europe, or former Soviet countries would be very interesting.

    6. Rude-Dependent-4353 on

      Now include the US. For extra credit, track Black and white people in the US separately. We should be more outraged to be trailing so many countries in infant mortality. We’re talking about babies dying needlessly because of racism and the profit motive being mixed up in healthcare, both of which are issues that can be dealt with (and had been in the past) to lower the rate of infant mortality.

    8. UnicornJoe42 on

      Why they count Poland and Lithuania if they don’t exist as a state until 1917, but not count another Russian Empire provinces of that time?