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Historical statistics

4.8 Deaths under one year of age, by cause

Cause of death	1931-1935	1941-1945	1946-1950	1951-1955	1956-1960	1961-1965	1966-1970	1971-1975	1976-1980	1981-1985	1986-1990	1991-1995	1996-2000	2001-2004
	Number of deaths per year
All causes	1 947	2 087	2 048	1 415	1 251	1 096	928	714	471	410	450	322	244	200
Congenital anomalies	42	121	156	207	212	216	185	172	137	130	122	99	81	63
Birth injuries	35	71	114	138	136	117	86	48	27	17	3	5	-	-
Other defined diseases affecting newborns	42	107	84	158	178	181	226
Prematurity	282	301	358	209	242	243	205	2317	150	98	141	109	91	84
Congenital debility and other ill-defined conditions of newborns	462	271	269	171	59	40	9
Tuberculosis	44	20	13	5	1	0	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Ordinary infectious diseases1	63	92	51	15	7	3	1	-	1	-	-	-	-	-
Other infectious diseases	41	45	45	22	17	7	10	15	18	15	10	14	6	6
Pneumonia, influenza	333	404	397	195	140	91	50	32	22	20	13	4	3	1
Other diseases of the respiratory system	41	45	42	22	19	11	7	6	5	4	17	12	8	6
Acute gastroenteritis	85	92	78	39	27	18	14	6	3	2	-	-	-	-
Other diseases of the digestive system	53	31	26	18	21	17	18	16	14	10	2	4	4	3
Other diseases	194	130	121	72	64	43	54	36	18	19	23	22	17	15
Violent deaths	12	20	20	23	28	32	34	17	9	4	4	4	4	4
Unknown cause	218	337	274	121	100	77	29	49	67	91	115	49	31	19
	Deaths per 10 000 live births
All causes	449.1	372.4	310.8	226.3	198.5	171.2	139.1	116.3	91.0	80.9	80.8	53.6	41.0	35.2
Congenital anomalies	9.8	21.5	23.6	33.2	33.6	33.8	27.7	28.0	26.5	25.7	21.9	16.5	13.6	11.1
Birth injuries	8.0	12.7	17.3	22.0	21.6	18.3	12.9	7.8	5.2	3.4	0.5	0.8	-	-
Other defined diseases affecting newborns	9.8	19.1	12.7	25.1	28.3	28.3	33.9
Prematurity	65.1	53.7	54.4	33.5	38.5	38.0	30.8	251.6	29.0	19.3	25.3	18.1	15.3	14.8
Congenital debility and other ill-defined conditions of newborns	106.6	48.4	40.8	27.4	9.4	6.3	1.4
Tuberculosis	10.1	3.6	2.0	0.7	0.1	0.0	0.0	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Ordinary infectious diseases1	14.5	16.4	7.7	2.3	1.2	0.4	0.1	0.0	0.2	-	-	-	-	-
Other infectious diseases	9.4	8.0	6.8	3.6	2.8	1.1	1.5	2.4	3.5	3.0	1.8	2.3	1.0	1.1
Pneumonia, influenza	76.9	72.0	60.3	31.1	22.4	14.2	7.4	5.2	4.3	4.0	2.3	0.7	0.5	0.2
Other diseases of the respiratory system	9.4	8.1	6.3	3.6	2.9	1.6	1.0	1.0	1.0	0.8	3.1	2.0	1.3	1.1
Acute gastroenteritis	19.5	16.4	11.9	6.1	4.2	2.8	2.0	1.0	0.6	0.4	-	-	-	-
Other diseases of the digestive system	12.3	5.6	4.0	3.0	3.3	2.7	2.7	2.6	2.8	2.0	0.4	0.7	0.7	0.5
Other diseases	44.7	23.2	18.3	11.7	10.0	6.7	8.1	5.9	3.5	3.8	4.1	3.7	2.9	2.6
Violent deaths	3.0	3.5	3.1	3.4	4.4	4.8	5.1	2.8	1.8	0.8	0.7	0.7	0.7	0.7
Unknown cause	50.0	60.2	41.6	19.6	15.8	12.2	4.4	8.0	13.0	18.0	20.7	8.2	5.2	3.3

1	Scarlet fever, diphteria, whooping cough and measles.
2	The transfer to the 8. revision of ICD has made comparison with previous periods impossible for some causes of death in the first year of life. Premature birth, congenital debility, etc. are now mostly classified under causes referring to the mother.
Source: NOS Causes of Death.

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