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Under-five mortality rate is the probability per 1,000 that a newborn baby will die before reaching age five, if subject to age-specific mortality rates of the specified year.

Definition: death prior to the complete expulsion or extraction from its mother of a product of conception, irrespective of the duration of pregnancy.

In the United States, a miscarriage is usually defined as loss of a baby before the 20th week of pregnancy, and a stillbirth is loss of a baby at or after 20 weeks of pregnancy.

Through this research, the authors found that, in 2019, an estimated 2 million babies (90% uncertainty interval [UI], 1.9–2.2) were stillborn at 28 weeks or more of gestation, with a global stillbirth rate of 13.9 stillbirths (90% UI, 13.5–15.4) per 1000 total births.

Overview. A baby who dies after 28 weeks of pregnancy, but before or during birth, is classified as a stillbirth. There are nearly 2 million stillbirths every year – one every 16 seconds.

Around 1.9 million stillbirths – babies born with no sign of life at 28 weeks of pregnancy or later – occurred worldwide in 2021. Many of these might have been prevented with proper care. ing to the latest data, the global stillbirth rate last year was 13.9 stillbirths per 1,000 total births.

Those terms are: stillborn, intrauterine death, fetal/fetal demise, fetal/fetal mortality, fetal/fetal death, dead-born and fetal/fetal loss. Other less specific terms are sometimes used as well: intrapartum death, antepartum death, perinatal audit, perinatal death, perinatal mortality, pregnancy loss.

In the United States, a miscarriage is usually defined as loss of a baby before the 20th week of pregnancy, and a stillbirth is loss of a baby at or after 20 weeks of pregnancy.