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Appendix table 3. Mortality during infant and perinatal period 1987–2018

	Perinatal deaths (stillbirths and first week deaths)	Perinatal mortality/ 1000 births (incl. stillbirths) 1)	Stillbirths	First week mortality	First week mortality/ 1,000 births	Neonatal deaths	Neonatal mortality 2)	Infant deaths	Infant mortality 3)
1987	505	8,4	311	194	3,2	252	4,2	370	6,2
1990	507	7,7	307	200	3,1	245	3,7	368	5,6
1997	369	6,2	240	129	2,2	165	2,8	233	3,9
2000	325	5,7	228	97	1,7	136	2,4	205	3,6
2001	306	5,4	208	98	1,7	122	2,2	181	3,2
2002	304	5,5	213	91	1,6	117	2,1	165	3,0
2003	276	4,9	178	98	1,7	120	2,1	182	3,2
2004	300	5,2	187	113	2,0	142	2,5	193	3,3
2005	286	4,9	182	104	1,8	125	2,2	179	3,1
2006	284	4,8	193	91	1,5	119	2,0	168	2,9
2007	298	5,1	204	94	1,6	109	1,9	159	2,7
2008	283	4,7	189	94	1,6	116	1,9	159	2,7
2009	300	4,9	205	95	1,6	122	2,0	160	2,6
2010	248	4,1	181	67	1,1	91	1,5	138	2,3
2011	239	4,0	161	78	1,3	97	1,6	142	2,4
2012	232	3,9	161	71	1,2	85	1,4	141	2,4
2013	197	3,4	147	50	0,9	61	1,0	98	1,7
2014	225	3,9	163	62	1,1	81	1,4	125	2,2
2015	225	4,0	172	53	1,0	69	1,2	96	1,7
2016	216	4,1	159	57	1,1	70	1,3	103	2,0
2017	195	3,9	143	52	1,0	76	1,5	101	2,0
2018	194	4,1	136	58	1,2	74	1,6	99	2,1

1) Perinatal mortality = Stillborn (the duration of the mother's pregnancy at least 22 weeks or birth weight at least 500 g) and deaths during the first week of life per thousand births (incl. stillborn).
2) Neonatal mortality = The number of deaths during the four first weeks of life per thousand live births.
3) Infant mortality = The number of deaths at under one year per thousand live births.

Source: Causes of death, Statistics Finland

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Updated 16.12.2019