infant mortality rate

1. 1.

   the death rate during the first year of life

   Synonymsinfant deathrateinfant mortality

   Broaderdeathrate

Questions about infant mortality rate

What does infant mortality rate mean?

infant mortality rate means "the death rate during the first year of life".

What is another word for infant mortality rate?

Close synonyms include infant deathrate, infant mortality. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is infant mortality rate a common word?

infant mortality rate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.