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Infant Mortality and the HDI

Geoff Riley

6th November 2015

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Infant mortality is measured by the probability of dying between birth and exactly age 1, expressed per 1,000 live births. The data for countries matched against their HDI score for 2013 is shown in the chart below.

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

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