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Children & Youth

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Source: New York State Department of Health

What does this measure?

The number of deaths among infants under age 1 per year per 1,000 live births, averaged over three years.

Why is this important?

Infant mortality reflects the overall health status of a population and indirectly is a measure of the effectiveness and availability of quality health care, particularly prenatal care.

How is our region performing?

In 2017-19, the infant mortality rate was 6.9 per 1,000 live births, well above the statewide rate of 4.4. The region's rate has fluctuated between 6 and 7 since 2002-04. Infant mortality was lower in the counties surrounding Monroe; as a group, their rate was 6.1 in 2017-19. The infant mortality rate was highest in the City of Rochester at 13 per 1,000 live births in 2017-19.

Notes about the data

Rates are averaged over three years because some geographies or groups have small numbers, making it difficult to distinguish true changes from random fluctuations.

Infant Mortality

	2002-04	2005-07	2008-10	2011-13	2014-16	2017-19
NYS	6.0	5.6	5.3	5.0	4.5	4.4
NYS (excluding NYC)	6.0	5.8	5.7	5.5	5.1	4.8
Region	6.1	6.8	6.9	6.5	6.0	6.9
Monroe	6.4	7.3	7.7	7.1	6.6	7.4
Surrounding Counties	5.5	5.8	5.4	5.5	4.9	6.1
Genesee	4.7	5.9	5.7	6.8	5.7	4.8
Livingston	3.1	6.4	2.9	3.1	3.2	5.8
Ontario	5.0	6.6	6.9	4.2	4.5	4.8
Orleans	3.6	4.5	6.2	6.5	9.4	6.8
Seneca	4.6	7.1	7.8	6.1	3.6	8.1
Wayne	7.7	5.2	4.2	5.1	6.0	5.3
Wyoming	5.4	4.8	5.8	6.9	2.6	5.5
Yates	11.0	5.4	4.2	8.6	3.3	12.4
Monroe County Local Areas
Rochester		13.3	13.8	10.6	9.3	13.0
Regional Cities
Batavia		4.9	8.7	5.5	5.5	3.5
Canandaigua		8.5	5.7	9.0	6.6	7.2
Geneva		11.4	10.5	4.2	2.1	4.7

Source: New York State Department of Health
Notes: Rates are number of deaths of infants under 1 year per 1,000 live births.

Number of Infant Deaths

	2002-04	2005-07	2008-10	2011-13	2014-16	2017-19
NYS	4,511	4,184	3,882	3,537	3,212	2,941
NYS (excluding NYC)	2,362	2,230	2,130	2,000	1,822	1,677
Region	252	279	277	254	231	256
Monroe	168	191	198	178	163	175
Surrounding Counties	84	88	79	76	68	81
Genesee	9	12	11	12	10	8
Livingston	6	12	5	5	5	9
Ontario	17	22	22	13	14	14
Orleans	5	6	8	8	12	8
Seneca	5	8	9	7	4	9
Wayne	26	17	13	15	17	15
Wyoming	7	6	7	8	3	6
Yates	9	5	4	8	3	12
Monroe County Local Areas
Rochester		94	142	105	85	116
Regional Cities
Batavia		2	5	3	3	2
Canandaigua		2	2	3	2	2
Geneva		4	5	2	1	2

Source: New York State Department of Health

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