Infant Mortality
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made a comparative assessment of neonatal death rates in (a) the UK and (b) other European countries in the last ten years.
Answered by Karin Smyth
The United Kingdom neonatal mortality rate for babies after at least 24 weeks of pregnancy decreased between 2013 and 2020, before rising in 2021 and 2022 and falling slightly in 2023.
This is similar to the trend across Europe, where rates generally decreased or fluctuated about a similar level between 2015 to 2019.
In 2019, the UK neonatal mortality rate was slightly higher than the median across Europe.
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