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. 2008 May;14(3):209-229.
doi: 10.1002/psp.484. Epub 2008 Mar 25.

The Global Distribution of Infant Mortality: A subnational spatial view

Adam Storeygard  1 , Deborah Balk, Marc Levy, Glenn Deane
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The Global Distribution of Infant Mortality: A subnational spatial view

Adam Storeygard et al. Popul Space Place. 2008 May.

Abstract

We describe the compilation of a spatially explicit dataset detailing infant mortality rates in over 10,000 national and subnational units worldwide, benchmarked to the year 2000. Although their resolution is highly variable, subnational data are available for countries representing over 90% of non-OECD population. Concentration of global infant deaths is higher than implied by national data alone. Assigning both national and subnational data to map grid cells so that they may be easily integrated with other geographic data, we generate infant mortality rates for environmental regions, including biomes and coastal zones, by continent. Rates for these regions also show striking refinements from the use of the higher resolution data. Possibilities and limitations for related work are discussed.

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National IMR map
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Subnational IMR map
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Scatter plot: subnational rates by national rate ranking
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Deaths map
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Lisa plot: Global
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Lisa plot: Africa
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Lisa plots: Mexico
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IMR by continent by decile of distance to coast
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