Birth Defects or Congenital Anomalies
(Data are for the U.S.)
Mortality
- Number of deaths for all ages: 9,883
- Number of infant deaths: 5,319
- Infant deaths per 100,000 live births: 128.8
- Cause of infant death rank: 1
Source: Deaths: Final Data for 2009, table 10, 21 [PDF - 2.1 MB]
More data
- Births: Final Data for 2009 [PDF - 1.3 MB]
- Infant Mortality Statistics from the 2007 Period Linked Birth/Infant Death Data Set [PDF - 1.4 MB]
- Search Tables for Birth Defects in Health Data Interactive
- Trends in Spina Bifida and Anencephalus in the United States, 1991-2006
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