INFANT MORTALITY RATE
Definition: IS THE NUMBER OF DEATHS UNDER ONE YEAR OF AGE OCCURRING AMONG THE LIVE BIRTHS IN A GIVEN GEOGRAPHICAL AREA DURING A GIVEN YEAR, PER 1,000 LIVE BIRTHS OCCURRING AMONG THE POPULATION OF THE GIVEN GEOGRAPHICAL AREA DURING THE SAME YEAR
Why I chose this picture: this is an infant and this word is about the death of infants (this baby is not a victim to infant mortality)
Why would a country want these numbers to be high or low: they’d want these numbers to be low because countries don’t want to have infants die, and babies dying says a lot about the people’s health which is related to the healthiness of the country