Only three developed countries have higher infant mortality rates.

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After comparing various unequal countries and American states with more equal ones, the authors concluded that greater inequality leads to more crime, higher infant mortality, fatter citizens, shorter lives, more teenage pregnancies, more discrimination against women and so on.

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Ranked at number 23, the UK had fewer women in Parliament and higher maternal and infant mortality rates than much of Europe, Save the Children reported.

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With rates of infant mortality about 15 times higher than those today, many of your generation did well to make it.

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Infant mortality, and mortality from infectious diseases, had always been higher in Russia than in the West, but they had usually been decreasing and, very gradually, converging towards the levels of developed Western countries.

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