Question

Given the following data:

               Infant mortality rate in 2000 = 31.3/1000 = 0.0313

               Birth rate in 2000 = 21.62/1000 = 0.02162

               Death rate in 2000 = 6.26/1000 = 0.00626

               Population in 2000 = 78,773,870

               Infant mortality rate in 2017 = 17.3/1000 = 0.0173

Find

1. the fraction of the total deaths that are infants less than 1 year old in 2000 in Vietnam;
2. the deaths that could be avoided in Vietnam in 2000, assuming an infant mortality rate equals to the one observed in 2017.

Answer 1

a) Population in 2000 = 78773870

Total no. of deaths = 0.626% * 78773870 = 493124.4262

Total no. of births = 2.162% of 78773870 = 1703091.0694

Total no. of deaths of infants less than 1 year = 3.13% of 1703091.0694 = 53306.7505

Fraction of total deaths that are infants less than 1 year old in 2000 = Total no. of deaths of infants less than 1 year/Total no. of deaths = 53306.755/493124.4262 = 0.1081

b) Total no. of deaths of infants less than 1 year if IMR equals to the one observed in 2017 = 1.73% of 1703091.0694

= 29463.4582

Deaths that could be avoided = 53306.7505 - 29463.4582 = 23843.2968 = 23843 deaths