And in Mexico, the rate is about 35 per 10,000 births.

They are present in approximately 3-6 per 1000 live births.

The national rate is about 10 deaths per 1,000 births.

The rate for 1989 was 9.7 per 1,000 live births, down from 9.9 in 1988.

In southern Nigeria, the number is nearly three times lower, about 80 per 1,000 births.

In 1970 the rate was 17.7 per 1,000 live births.

The infant mortality rate was 11.2 per 1000 live births in 2003.

In 1969 the rate was 24.4 deaths per 1,000 births.

By 1986 the death rate had dropped to 12.8 per 1,000 births, but in 1987 it rose to 13.1.

No European country had a death rate of higher than 10 per 100,000 births in 2005.