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>It's difficult to track infant mortality across countries, because countries have different standards for reporting infant mortality. My understanding is that our ranking there is in significant part an artifact of measurement.

I hadn't heard that before. What specific artifacts are you talking about and do all organizations in the U.S. always use different standards than all other developed countries... have you seen any studies that control for those?

I've always heard this is the measure chosen specifically because it is the easiest to track as nearly all infant deaths are reported in developed countries and death doesn't lend itself to nuanced definitions.

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For instance:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6681443/