Dagestan and Chechnya - leaders in infant mortality in UCFD
Published: 5 April 2023
Dagestan ranked first in the CFR for infant mortality, where in 2022, 308 children (7.2 cases per 1,000 births) did not live to the age of one year. This is reported by Rosstat. In second place is Chechnya - 187 newborns died there (more than 6 out of a thousand). In Stavropol Krai, infant mortality claimed 114 lives per year - 4.7 per thousand. Forty-two babies did not live to be born in Ingushetia (5.2 per thousand) and Kabardino-Balkaria (4.1 per thousand). In North Ossetia 29 infants (3.9 per thousand) lost their lives, and in Karachay-Cherkessia 22 (5 per thousand).