World Infant Mortality Telling Truth

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World Infant Mortality

[Updated on Dec. 6, 2011]

The future is for children of the world. But, children in developing regions can still be sacrificed by grown-ups living in the advanced countries.

Infant mortality is defined as the number of infant deaths (one year of age or younger) per 1000 live births.

For the world, and for both Less Developed Countries (LDCs) and More Developed Countries (MDCs), IMR declined significantly between 1960 and 2001. According to the Save the Children State of the World's Mothers report, the world infant mortality rate declined from 126 in 1960 to 57 in 2001.

World infant mortality rates in 2008
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infant_mortality

Especially, the U.S. sent troops and made war in the two lowly-ranked countries in terms of infant morality: Afghanistan and Iraq. Or the American invasion made the two countries get ranked low.

As indicated so, the outside force or American force cannot be successful in realizing democracy in Islamic countries. Hence, Islamic revolution must happen from the inside of those countries to implement democracy.

American invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan is thus controversial. American voters and taxpayers do not mind higher infant mortality in Iraq and Afghanistan. They do not mind anything of Iraq and Afghanistan so long as no terrorists come from Iraq and Afghanistan to attack New York and Washington DC.

This fact marks the end of the era of America being the sole superpower in the world. It is so, since a super power will not sacrifice infants in Afghanistan and Iraq to enjoy its safety and prosperity (if being driven by Wall Street indexes).

So, Islamic revolution for democracy must be pursued. Democracy will change Islam and advance Muslims. It must evolve to be a spiritual and cultural infrastructure equivalent to Chinese fundamental cultural traditions that allow China to accept, adopt, and promote technical aid and application from Japan to be a great industrialized country.

Infant Mortality per 1000 infant population
Nation	Year	No. of Deaths	Infant Population	Death Rate
South Africa	2005	15,435	4,186,961	3.69
Guatemala	2004	4,206	1,584,382	2.65
Azarbaijan	2004	870	445,700	1.95
Kyrgyzstan	2006	661	405,565	1.63
Uzbekistan	2005	3,001	2,036,215	1.47
Ecuador	2005	1,431	1,147,135	1.25
Panama	2004	320	272,549	1.17
Albania	2004	237	203,625	1.16
Kazakhstan	2006	1,140	983,466	1.16
Guyana	2005	68	62,357	1.09
Paraguay	2004	454	578,366	0.78
Mexico	2005	6,448	8,404,932	0.77
Ukraine	2005	1,179	1,562,304	0.75
Venezuela	2005	1,694	2,279,558	0.74
Bulgaria	2004	192	267,233	0.72
Columbia	2005	2,523	3,587,557	0.7
Russia	2006	3,968	5,673,993	0.7
Brazil	2004	9,468	14,330,739	0.66
Mauritius	2005	48	74,610	0.64
El Salvador	2005	378	623,272	0.61
Moldova	2006	85	145,767	0.58
Argentina	2005	1,533	2,679,395	0.57
Romania	2007	472	849,666	0.56
Belarus	2003	198	365,035	0.54
Uruguay	2004	109	207,877	0.52
Estonia	2005	24	51,769	0.46
Macedonia	2003	43	98,331	0.44
Lithuania	2006	52	120,696	0.43
Latvia	2006	35	81,799	0.43
Armenia	2003	63	153,257	0.41
Cuba	2005	219	537,854	0.41
Reunion	2005	21	57,932	0.36
Slovakia	2005	73	206,033	0.35
Chile	2005	339	985,293	0.34
Cyprus	2006	11	32,346	0.34
Costa Rica	2005	106	314,394	0.34
Hungary	2005	123	383,001	0.32
Serbia	2006	93	308,670	0.3
USA	2005	4,756	16,197,097	0.29
Portugal	2003	128	445,446	0.29
Korea	2006	547	1,953,771	0.28
Poland	2006	388	1,417,459	0.27
Israel	2004	151	555,280	0.27
Australia	2003	271	1,018,244	0.27
JAPAN	2006	1,076	4,377,000	0.25
New Zealand	2004	55	226,720	0.24
Croatia	2006	39	163,396	0.24
UK	2006	631	2,764,674	0.23
Spain	2005	380	1,747,789	0.22
Sweden	2005	83	389,629	0.21
Netherland	2006	168	791,742	0.21
Canada	2004	286	1,368,526	0.21
Hong Kong	2006	34	170,400	0.2
France	2005	602	3,067,832	0.2
Puerto Rico	2005	41	213,834	0.19
Switzerland	2005	55	292,435	0.19
Czech	2005	69	372,336	0.19
Italy	2003	389	2,130,280	0.18
Germany	2006	528	2,894,132	0.18
Norway	2005	42	231,248	0.18
Greece	2006	62	419,968	0.15
Ireland	2006	33	241,176	0.14
Finland	2006	27	228,277	0.12
Singapore	2006	17	161,200	0.11

Source:  WHO Mortality Database

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Child Labor

There is a problem of child labor in Indonesia, India, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Egypt, though to a different extent.
(Click to enlarge.)

Brazil, Mexico, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Sudan have still abused children.

The American invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan and America's being a neighborhood to Mexico do not improve the situation in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Mexico.

(Japan's being a neighbor of Taiwan, South Korea, and China has helped them promote their modernization and industrialization as well as welfare of their children. But, North Korea, a big problem. Russia, another problem.)


Child Labor II


In a large scope of welfare of children and minors, even some advanced countries neglect health, safety, security, and future of them.

		Informal labor (includes street vending, begging, camel jockeying, portering, and other service industries)
		Commercial labor (includes factory work, farming, fishing, mining, quarrying, and all other forms of manufacturing)
		Subject to both conditions
		No significant cases reported
The International Labor Organization (ILO) defines child labor as work by children under the age of 18.The ILO considers hazardous child labor to be "work which, by its nature or the circumstances in which it is carried out, is likely to harm the health, safety, or morals of children."

http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/indepth/child_labor/activities/index.asp?article=labor_map