Table 34b: Ethnicity - Infant mortality per 1,000 live births, all, by ethnicity, United States, 2000

					Non-Hispanic
	Total		Hispanic*		Total**		Black or African American		White
Rate Population group	Number	Rate	Number	Rate	Number	Rate	Number	Rate	Number	Rate
Total	27,960	6.9	4,564	5.6	22,916	7.2	8,212	13.6	13,461	5.7
Mother's age
Under 15	151	17.7	47	17.7	102	17.6	75	20	27	14.9
15-19	4,593	9.8	925	7.1	3,609	10.8	1,579	13.6	1,879	9.2
20-24	7,724	7.6	1,278	5.2	6,331	8.3	2,593	13.2	3,506	6.7
25-29	6,631	6.1	1,084	5	5,424	6.3	1,824	13.3	3,273	5
30-34	5,238	5.6	709	5	4,421	5.7	1,284	14	2,815	4.6
35 and over	3,623	6.6	521	6.8	3,029	6.5	857	14.7	1,962	5.4
Gender
Female	12,297	6.2	2,070	5.2	10,025	6.4	3,648	12.3	5,841	5.1
Male	15,664	7.5	2,494	6	12,891	7.9	4,564	14.9	7,621	6.3
Mother's education (age 20 and over)
Less than high school graduate	4,595	7.9	1,595	5.4	2,968	10.7	1,197	15	1,595	9.2
High school graduate	8,146	7.3	1,031	5	7,015	7.8	2,660	13.5	4,042	6.3
At least some college	9,219	5	747	4.5	8,382	5.1	2,310	11.5	5,526	4.2

*Persons of Hispanic origin may be of any race.

**Includes persons of other races not shown.

Key: AI/AN: American Indian or Alaska Native; NHOPI: Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander

Note: The number of deaths for infant mortality is based on a record weight from the linked birth and infant death file, which adjusts for the approximately 2-3% of records each year that cannot be linked to their corresponding birth certificates. Therefore, because of number rounding, the number of deaths for sub-groups may not add up to the total. The population categories used in this table are as reported from the source of the data (see below).

Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Vital Statistics System.

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