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The US has a higher rate of infant mortality because it has more premature births.

http://www.newsweek.com/us-leads-industrialized-world-premat...



There's lot's of elements to the problem. For example, the infant morality rate for black Americans is double the rate for white Americans, and triple the OECD average: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6205a6.htm.




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