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Infant mortality rate (under one year old) in Germany from 1840 to 2020*

Characteristic	Deaths per 1,000 live births
2020	3
2015	3
2010	4
2005	4
2000	5
1995	6
1990	8
1985	11
1980	16
1975	21
1970	23
1965	30
1960	39
1955	46
1940	65.2
1935	80.8
1930	94
1925	121.6
1920	144.6
1915	160.4
1910	174.2
1905	199
1900	217
1895	224.4
1890	224.4
1885	229
1880	227.4
1875	295.4
1870	302.2
1865	309
1860	286.6
1855	289.2
1850	299.6
1845	296.2
1840	295

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June 2019

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Germany, German Democratic Republic

Survey time period

1840-2020

Supplementary notes

* All data given is an average of annual data from the preceding five year period. Data for 1941 to 1954 was not available.
UN data used from 1955 onwards. Data prior to 1955 can be found .

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The infant mortality rate in Germany, for children under the age of one (twelve months), was 295 deaths per thousand births in 1840. This translated into approximately three out of every ten children born in 1840 not surviving past their first birthday. The largest decrease in this 180 year period came in the late 1870s, as Germany introduced mandatory vaccination for children, which brought infant mortality down by almost sixty in this five year period. From the turn of the twentieth century onwards, the infant mortality rate in Germany dropped considerably (although data in and immediately after the Second World War is not available), and by 2020 the number is expected to be just three deaths per thousand births.