*All data given is an average of annual data from the preceding five year period.
** Data relates to all of Soviet Union, not just the area of modern-day Russian Federation.
UN data used from 1955 onwards. Data prior to 1955 can be found .
The infant mortality rate in Russia, for children under the age of one year old, was over 266 deaths per thousand births in 1870. This means that for all babies born in 1870, over one quarter did not survive past their first birthday. Unfortunately some information is missing in the early twentieth century, during Russia's revolutionary period and again during the Second World War, however it is noticeable that Russia's infant mortality rate fell to one death for every ten babies born in 1955, and from this point the rate has fallen to just six deaths per thousand births today.
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