Table 2

Trends in infant and child mortality

	Infant mortality rate			Child mortality		Ratio
	1970	1980	1987	1997	1980	1997	1980	1997
East Asia and the Pacific	79	56	44	37	28	10	0.50	0.23
Eastern Europe and Central Asia	—	41	29	23		7		0.24
Latin America and the Caribbean	84	60	49	32		9		0.18
Middle East and North Africa	134	95	67	49	46	14	0.48	0.21
South Asia	139	119	97	77	69	24	0.58	0.25
Sub-Saharan Africa	137	115	103	91	83	61	0.72	0.59

Source: World Bank, World development indicators and Poverty reduction and the World Bank (1996).
Infant mortality rate is the number of infants dying in the first 12 months per 1000 live births.
Child mortality is the number of children dying between one and four completed years of age, per 1000 live births.