United States 2022 infant mortality and number of physicians by state, including the District of Columbia.

Infant mortality data extracted from September 2023 posting of US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Mortality data for 2022 is listed as provisional and is subject to change. Physician data extracted from table 16 of Health United States 2019, National Center for Health Statistics (US) and represents number of physicians in patient care per 100,000 resident population in 2018, by state.

Usage

infant_mortality_2022

Format

A data frame with 51 rows and 3 columns.

state_name

Character vector vector, US State including the District of Columbia

infant_mortality_rate

Numeric vector, number of deaths per 1000 live births between 1 day and 1 year of age

doctors

Numeric, number of physicians in patient care per 100,000 population

Source

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/infant_mortality_rates/infant_mortality.htm, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK569310/table/ch2.tab16/