Infant Mortality and Asian Americans

Infant Health & Mortality

Infant Mortality and Asian

Asian women generally have lower infant mortality rates than the overall population, however recent statistics for Asian American subgroups are limited for this topic.
Asian American infants are 40 percent more likely to die from maternal complications as compared to non-Hispanic white mothers.

Infant mortality rate per 1,000 live births, 2017
Asian	Non-Hispanic White	All Races	Asian / Non-Hispanic White Ratio
3.8	4.7	5.8	0.8

Source: CDC 2019. Infant Mortality Statistics from the 2017 Period Linked Birth/Infant Death Data Set. National Vital Statistics Reports. Table 2.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr68/nvsr68_10-508.pdf [474.53KB]

Infant deaths and mortality rates for the top 5 leading causes of death - Asians , 2017 (Rates per 100,000 live births)
Cause of Death (By rank)	#Asian Deaths	Asian Death Rate	#Non-Hispanic White Deaths	Non-Hispanic White Death Rate	Asian / Non-Hispanic White Ratio
(1) Congenital malformations	211	84.7	2,138	107.3	0.8
(2) Low-Birthweight	162	65.0	1,260	63.2	1.0
(3) Maternal complications	83	33.3	470	23.6	1.4
(7) Accidents (unintentional injuries)	25	10.0	619	31.1	0.3
(8) Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)	19	--	688	34.5	--

Source: CDC 2019. Infant Mortality Statistics from the 2017 Period Linked Birth/Infant Death Data Set. National Vital Statistics Reports. Table 5.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr68/nvsr68_10-508.pdf [474.53KB]

Percentage of mothers who received prenatal care (first trimester), 2017
Asian American	Non-Hispanic White	Asian / Non-Hispanic White Ratio
81.1	82.4	1.0

Percentage of mothers who received late or no prenatal care, 2017
Asian American	Non-Hispanic White	Asian / Non-Hispanic White Ratio
5.1	4.5	1.1

Source: CDC 2019. Births: Final Data for 2017 National Vital Statistics Reports. Table 13.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr67/nvsr67_08-508.pdf [987.68KB]

Percentage of mothers who received late or no prenatal care, 2017
Asian Americans	Non-Hispanic White	Asian / Non-Hispanic White Ratio
0.5	10.1	0.05

Source: CDC 2019. Births: Final Data for 2017 National Vital Statistics Reports. Table 13.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr67/nvsr67_08-508.pdf [987.68KB]

Infant mortality rate per 1,000 live births, 2017
Age of Mother	Asian American	Non-Hispanic White	Asian / Non-Hispanic White Ratio
Under 20 years	--	8.5	--
20-24 years	4.8	6.1	0.8
25-29 years	3.4	4.6	0.7
30-34 years	3.6	3.8	0.9
35-39 years	3.9	4.1	1.0
40-54 years	4.8	5.3	0.9

Last Modified: 11/8/2019 4:20:00 PM

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